Health insurance is a mess and I call it “Forest Gump” insurance as you just don’t know what you are going to get and here we go once more. The money has run out from the state so off goes the subsidized insurance. The premiums were 
$36 a month, affordable but had many restrictions but better than zero. Original funding came from tobacco settlements but that money has been diverted elsewhere.
There was a request for Blue Cross to donate some extra money to keep it going but the answer was no, and remember they made record profits this year so the answer is a bitter pill to swallow by all means. Blue Cross still needs to send out letters to inform all. Around 12,000 people will be left without coverage assuming they can’t afford one of the other plans. BD
Pennsylvania's subsidized health insurance for low-income working people will likely end next month, officials on Gov.-elect Tom Corbett's transition team said Tuesday, leaving more than 40,000 people with less palatable options and dashing the hopes of more than 400,000 on the waiting list.
"Adult Basic is not sustainable," said Kevin Harley, a spokesman for the transition, referring to the insurance program that began eight years ago under Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, and was expanded by outgoing Gov. Rendell, a Democrat.
To provide "as soft a landing as possible," Simon said, the team had negotiated an agreement with the Blue Cross companies to waive their normal restriction on people with preexisting conditions who move from adultBasic to the Blues' current Special Care plans for low-income people.
Those plans cost several times as much as adultBasic and provide far fewer benefits - a maximum of four doctor's office visits a year for most issues, including both primary care and specialists, for example.
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