Health insurance open enrollment ends Dec. 15.

Here’s what you need to know. excerpts…but if you are affected by this please click through and read the whole article! First, individuals with incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty threshold in Wisconsin are eligible for federal subsidies to help offset the cost of health…

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Does Governor Elect Tony Evers Have A Mandate?

Well…no I guess not. He didn’t even pull 50% of the vote much less crush incumbent Scott Walker. So when Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald say he lacks a mandate as the transition gets underway…they are correct. BUT…the GOP lawmakers who retained control of the…

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More Reasons For Single Payer Health Insurance Plans:

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone had health insurance? Without question? Without having to be employed? Without needing subsidies? Without their employers suffering? A recent article talked about the new Association Health Plans (AHP) that allow small businesses to band together to contract for insurance for their employees. There is…

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Scott Walker’s Pre-Existing Condition!

To those of us outside the Republican Party it comes as no surprise that health care is at the top of the minds of the majority of Americans. So when the protection of preexisting conditions became a focal point of a number of statewide races at the midterms in Wisconsin,…

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Is West Virginia Leading The Nation Towards Single Payer Health Care?

Earlier this week the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reprinted an article in their Ideas Lab from Kaiser Health News reporter Julie Revnor. I have the hard copy but online I found it on the NPR site. The article wrangles with the notion of who is really protecting the Affordable Care Act’s…

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Governor Walker continues to play politics with people’s lives

Just over a year ago we urged Governor Scott Walker to finally break down and accept the Medicaid expansion part of the Affordable Care Act. Of course he hasn’t done anything of the sort…well…because there’s no guarantee that the federal contributions will be there in the future (well if they…

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A Fearful Scott Walker Pivots Center On Healthcare

With the 2018 re-election campaign staring him in the face and the Democratic upset in Wisconsin’s 10th Senate District, Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker is pivoting to the center on healthcare. After demonizing the Affordable Care Act since its inception and his refusal to accept the Medicaid expansion that it…

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Debating the ACA Individual Mandate

Whether you support or have issue with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate…I would hope you at least support stripping it out of the tax reform cut legislation currently before Congress. Now the mandate says that every individual must have health insurance either through their employer, the ACA exchanges or…

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2018 Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment Is Going On NOW!

P.S. I believe Medicare is now too.

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Trump’s Handling of the ACA is Criminal

Obviously President Trump ran on repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. And we all know that the Republicans in Congress have been singing that song for the past seven plus years. And they introduced three separate really nasty repeal and replace bills since the president’s inauguration in January that…

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