Tag: AHCA

From what I have read about the House and Senate heath insurance bills…it sounds like the states who accepted the Medicaid expansion will fair far better than those states that didn’t. So Governor Walker…it’s time to accept the Medicaid expansion portion of the Affordable Care Act before it’s too late…

This letter to the editor appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday May 21, 2017 (JSOnline) and is from someone who actually worked with Wisconsin’s high risk pool back in the day. I am going to copy it here in its entirety but you can see it at JSOnline…

Well, wipe that smirk of off our collective faces, because the American Health Care Act may have some very serious deleterious effects on our coverage as well. Remember that little nugget about granting the states waivers if requested to remove any number of basic benefits from coverage offered in their…

This JSOnline article talks about Governor Scott Walker’s desire to drug test certain Medicaid applicants before they can receive benefits. We’ll get back to that in another post…but the key data point that I wanted to bring up is Wisconsin currently has 1.2 million people on Medicaid. That population size…

And a member of a high risk pool that we can’t afford. Ok, let’s put the puns aside for a minute, but since the passage of the House version of the American Health Care Act…another reason that Governor Scott Walker should not be re-elected has been exposed. After passage of…

The American Health Care Act 2.0 is just as onerous as the original one that never reached the House floor in March. And once again the House is in a hurry to force this through before they go on ANOTHER break after just 9 days in session. And this time…

From the email inbox from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin: Dear Democrats, Our hard work stopped President Trump and Congressional Republicans from taking health care away from 24 million Americans while giving millionaires and billionaires a tax cut. This week, they are poised to take another shot at repealing the…

Behind closed doors with a select audience of supporters, President Trump signed an executive order that will allow states to divert Title X federal dollars used for women’s health care away from the Planned Parenthood clinics that provide those services. President Trump signed legislation Thursday allowing states to withhold federal…

With the failure of the GOP’s American Health Care Act, a number of states have been made more aware of the advantages of the Medicaid expansion that is part of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. Not only have they been awakened to its popularity with their constituents, they are…

Last Friday, after House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the GOP American Health Care Act off the house floor, I opined that it wasn’t a win for the Democrats…AHCA Goes On Hiatus But This Wasn’t a Win For the Democrats. Out on the internet, I got read the riot act for…