Bill Would Permit Fund of Last Resort to Sell Health Insurance

Four Democrats and a Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives have introduced for the third time a bill that would allow State Workers’ Insurance Fund to sell health insurance. Rep. Robert Freeman, D-Northampton County, said Thursday he is optimistic that House Bill 1966 will pass when lawmakers reconvene in 2018 because it has a Republican co-sponsor and because President Donald Trump has “undercut” the Affordable Care Act. “They’ve made numerous efforts to try to weaken the act. The most recent example is shortening the sign-up per...