Tag: Affordable Care Act

First, apologies to those who can’t access the article…JSOnline has this one behind their pay wall: Lake Area Free Clinic saw the need for better access to dental care — and did something about it. But I am going to quote as much of it as I can…that I deem…

Wisconsin remains in the minority of states who haven’t accepted the Medicaid expansion as part of the Affordable Care Act. As a result, Wisconsin still has 82,000+ residents who are uninsured or under-insured and has lost $1.1 billion in federal government support dollars for Medicaid. These amounts aren’t being disputed….

President Donald Trump has taken every side possible on healthcare that a Republican can hold…all in like a week! First he urged the courts to negate the entire Affordable Care Act…pissing off the Democrats and blindsiding the Republicans in Congress…and totally opposite to many of the things he’s been saying…

Just as coal mines slowly slip into history, it’s time that the United States comes to the realization that our healthcare system is similarly past its useful life. And just maybe the current crisis around insulin pricing is the wake up call we need…people are actually dying…and it’s totally uncalled…

New Marquette poll indicates that much of Wisconsin supports the ideas that Governor Tony Evers espoused during his campaign…probably explains why he won! One of the items is the Medicaid expansion. Sixty two percent of Wisconsinites think that the state should accept the Medicaid expansion that is available through the…

In his State of the State address on Tuesday night, Governor Tony Evers stated that he was keeping one of his campaign promises and was instructing Attorney General Josh Kaul to remove Wisconsin from the federal lawsuit to declare the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional. The Republican leadership who control…

I mean…really…it is time. I realize that former Governor Scott Walker couldn’t accept it prior to his run for president in 2016…it would ruin his conservative cred nationally. But really, we are wasting Wisconsin tax dollars in the meantime…$1 billion so far since the Affordable Care Act was passed. And…

This article by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Human Interest writer, Jim Stingl, outlines the differences around how colonoscopies are treated by insurance companies and the negative impacts on everyday Americans. This is flat out idiocy. It is life threatening. There has no reasonable support for this medically. Once again health care…

During the interview that provided the articles around the state outlining the Republican plan to undermine the state’s electorate and newly elected governor by keeping the governor out of the budget process…Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald let out a sigh and quick inhale about Medicaid expansion for Wisconsin. It caught…

Ruling Striking Down Obamacare Moves Health Debate to Center Stage First off…you Democrats in Washington have got to stop freaking out and running all over the news acting like this is a disaster. It is serious but the Titanic isn’t sinking immediately here…it’s just taking on a little water. So…