For example, a single individual with an income at 300% of federal poverty who earns $28,710 a year would be required to pay a weekly premium of $32.31, and the weekly state subsidy would be $36.92.
Under Gov. Romney's proposal, the Safety Net Care program would be funded with existing resources of about $922 million that are currently used to pay for care for the uninsured.
It's been a balancing act, Ms. Lischko said, in figuring out how to make the plans attractive without incentivizing employers to drop coverage. Some of that can be avoided due to existing tax code provisions for nondiscrimination and existing and new state provisions for nondiscrimination. And competition for workers is also likely to prevent companies from dropping coverage, she said.