Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner has issued a report, based on comments at five public hearings held across the state, that suggests that state residents want tobacco settlement money to be used for health-related programs.

A Pennsylvania lawsuit asks that the governor be forced to reinstate adultBasic after the auditor general said the government used one-third of the money legally designated to health programs for other purposes.

Three Pittsburgh-area residents have filed a class action suit, seeking the restoration of the state’s adultBasic health insurance program.

Pennsylvania’s adultBasic program is dead, a victim of a lack of funding that Gov. Tom Corbett has blamed on his predecessor, Ed Rendell.

A Corbett Administration official in Pennsylvania appears to have recognized what insurance agents and brokers in the state have been saying about the adultBasic program all along: the economics don’t work.

The Pennsylvania nominee for insurance commissioner has asked federal officials to help it provide health insurance coverage to people who will lose their adultBasic coverage because of “problems left by the prior administration,” according to a statement from Gov. Tom Corbett’s office.

Subsidized health insurance for low-income working Pennsylvanians will end Feb. 28, a fate financial professionals have predicted since the program’s inception eight years ago.

Republican Gov.-elect Tom Corbett’s transition team negotiated a continuation to adultBasic coverage, albeit with higher premiums, to the working poor, after Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell failed to close a deal on one of his favorite programs.

Nearly 46,000 Pennsylvanians enrolled in adultBasic may lose health insurance next year if the state’s four Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurers do not renew a state agreement, according to two nonprofit organization’s analysis.

Capital BlueCross was selected to provide health insurance coverage through Pennsylvania’s adultBasic program in the central Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley areas it serves.