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Source: The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.迷你倉Oct. 22--Ohio on Monday became the latest Republican-led state to buy into the Medicaid expansion prescribed by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. And a Pennsylvania advocacy organization immediately called on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett to do the same."We applaud Governor [John] Kasich's decision to accept federal funds to bring health coverage to hundreds of thousands of working families in Ohio by January 1st. We hope Governor Corbett will follow the leadership of his neighbors and colleagues on both sides of Pennsylvania and move forward quickly," Antoinette Kraus, director of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, said in a news release.It's not that Corbett is completely against the idea. But he wants to use the federal expansion funds to allow people to buy private coverage on the federally-run health insurance exchange serving Pennsylvania. He's unwilling to expand Medicaid, which he contends to financially unsustainable.Corbett last month submitted a federal request for his proposal, which also would impose work- and job training-related requirements on people receiving the expanded coverage and on people currently receiving Medicaid.Neither Corbett nor federal officials have given estimates on how long it might take to g儲存in federal approval and make the new coverage available in Pennsylvania.Advocates for the uninsured are worried it might take until the middle of 2014 or even until sometime in 2015 to make the coverage available. The expansion, which is fully funded by the federal government for the first three years, is expected to cover roughly 500,000 Pennsylvania residents who are presently uninsured.It now looks likely that when the expanded coverage becomes available nationally on Jan. 1, federal tax dollars from Pennsylvania will be going toward covering people in other states that accepted the expansion, including Republican-led states such as New Jersey and now Ohio.Kasich, like Corbett, has had to contend with a legislature controlled by fellow Republicans, who largely oppose the Affordable Care Act.Faced with the Ohio legislature's unwillingness to allow the state to spend the federal expansion funds, Kasich did an end around by gaining approval from a little-known Ohio agency called the Control Board. A majority of Control Board members are Republicans.The expansion would provide health care for 366,000 Ohio residents.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pa.) Visit The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pa.) at .pennlive.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage