HARRISBURG - Gov. Ed Rendell on Tuesday threatened to withhold state aid to help doctors and other health care providers pay for their medical malpractice insurance unless lawmakers also act on his proposal to expand state health insurance for adults.
"I believe the best and highest use ... is to link (the surplus) to health care for all Pennsylvanians," Rendell said during a news conference.
"Disrupting a program designed to retain and attract doctors is a very poor policy choice when we are deeply concerned about health care access and quality," Sen. Gib Armstrong, R-Lancaster.
"Equally disturbing is the governor's effort to target the MCARE fund as a revenue source for the universal health care proposal," said Don White, R-Indiana, chairman of the Senate's Banking and Insurance Committee. "The approximately $ 400 million surplus in the fund is obviously attractive, but raiding MCARE to pay for the universal health care plan raises several red flags.
loandude
I think he is trying to do something that is not lawful. If the money was being collected to promote doctor availability in the state, how can he use it to extort the legislature???
Pat J
I keep reading about this.
It seems like he is going too far. Is it even legal to do it??
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