HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — House Republicans followed through Monday on their threat to kill a provision written by the state Senate to require Gov. Tom Corbett to seek federal approval for an expansion of Medicaid eligibility to provide taxpayer-paid health care to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians.
A key House committee stripped the provision from a wider budget-related bill, and the GOP-controlled chamber sent the bill to the Senate late Monday on a vote of 108-94. A spokesman for House Republican leaders said they disagree with the legislation because it undercuts the Corbett administration's ability to extract concessions from the federal government on how a Medicaid expansion would work.
Leaders of the Senate's Republican majority have not said yet how they will respond when senators return to Harrisburg on Tuesday or Wednesday.
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