No Matter What Bill They Pass, Health Care Costs the Same Thing

The headline is essentially true…although in the overall scheme of things there are ways to lower the total cost of health care. But let’s walk through this together. Let’s say that I wake up at 2:30 am tomorrow morning with severe abdominal pain and my wife rushes me to the…

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Governor Walker Should Accept the Medicaid Expansion NOW!

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…

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So Just How Effective Was Wisconsin’s High Risk Pool In Real Life?

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…

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Smug Because You Have Employer Provided Health Insurance?

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…

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Where Is The Return On Investment for Single Payer Health Care?

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…

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Did You Get a 8.5% Raise Last Year?

No? Neither did I…and I didn’t make $11.5 million in salary, stock and bonuses like the average CEO. That CEO made 347 times more than the average employee in their firm. Do you think any CEO is worth that? Is your CEO worth 347 times your worth to the company?…

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Scott Walker Is A Pre-existing Condition

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…

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Perez Spikes the Ball In the End Zone, Ed Throws a Penalty Flag

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…

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AHCA Goes On Hiatus But This Wasn’t a Win For the Democrats

When it was obvious that they didn’t have the votes in the House to pass the American Health Care Act, House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump agreed to pull it from consideration. They claimed it was close but the Washington Post was touting 36 confirmed no votes and…

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Why the GOP Doesn’t Have a Robust Health Insurance Plan

You’d think after seven years of kvetching, the GOP would have a robust plan to provide all Americans with health insurance. Well they didn’t need to. All they wanted to do was run against Obamacare…and promise to repeal it…and pass the bills to do so since they knew President Obama…

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