Gov. Ed Rendell said today that he’d take his fight to expand health coverage for the uninsured to the campaign trail this fall, threatening to work for the defeat of Republican lawmakers who refuse to play along.

“Woe to anyone who doesn’t support healthcare come November – not just from me, but from their citizens,” Rendell said during a mid-morning press conference where he announced the expansion of the state’s existing AdultBasic health insurance program. “There’s a day of reckoning coming for healthcare, and that’s coming on the first Tuesday of November.”

Rendell has spent the last year trying to convince lawmakers of both parties to support his proposal to extend health benefits to nearly 800,000 uninsured adults. The effort, christened “Cover All Pennsylvanians,” has run into stiff opposition from Republicans who have denounced it as little more than an effort to impose socialized medicine.
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