Insurers want Pa.'s Medicaid business so badly they keep suing the state

Medicaid payments are like starvation wages for doctors and hospitals. But to insurers, the government-paid health insurance for low-income families is a feast worth fighting over. Pennsylvania is trying for the third time since 2015 to replace its Medicaid contracts — worth a total of $65 billion over the last five years — with companies that manage physical health benefits for 2.6 million Pennsylvanians.