Pennsylvania’s subsidized health insurance will come to an end next month, according to The Pennsylvania Inquirer. The insurance for low-income people currently assists more than 40,000 people and has another 400,000 on a waiting list for service. “AdultBasic is not sustainable,” Kevin Harley, a spokesman for the governor’s transition team told the newspaper. The program began eight years ago under Gov. Tom Ridge.

Both the exiting governor and the new one say the program is not doing well and would run out of money by the end of February. Currently it’s funded by tobacco-settlement money and donations from the state’s four Blue Cross plans. “There is no apparent source of funds,”David F. Simon, chief legal counsel of Jefferson Health System, told The Inquirer.

For people on the plan, they will have some help switching to Blue Cross. The company says it will not restrict people for preexisting conditions, something it would normally do. But the cost will be several times higher than what they are currently paying under the adultBasic plan. “Special care is horrible insurance,” Gene Bishop, an internal medicine doctor at Pennsylvania Hospital, told reporters. “When I was in practice and I first saw someone with that insurance, I thought they were mistaken. Who would sell someone insurance that you can only go four times a year?”