Tag: Badgercare

To my Dem friends: “as ye sow, so shall ye reap” Less than 24 hours after Governor Walker’s concession speech in the 2018 Wisconsin governor’s race, a very disheartened and apparently bitter Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos reached for his personal inner Mitch McConnell and threatened to take power away…

we had comprehensive universal single payer health insurance. Instead he is vilifying poor and possibly handicapped Wisconsinites who are currently on Badgercare (Medicaid). But really, the state and federal government co-pay for Badgercare, so removing users from the plan would save money…although I don’t think that’s totally the impetus behind…

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…

As I stated yesterday, in the face of the failure of the GOP bid to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, instead of considering accepting the Medicaid expansion like a number of other Republican states, Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker wants to move more people off of BadgerCare (the Wisconsin…

Some of the fallout from the GOP’s American Health Care Act is starting to become apparent when the numbers start getting crunched. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an interesting article on Sunday March 19th and some of the effects of the bill on Wisconsin. Let’s start with this lead in:…

Watch Scott Walker tie his tongue in knots. Priceless.

Remind me again how Republicans in Wisconsin are so “fiscally responsible.” Wisconsin taxpayers would have saved $206 million over two years — 73% more than previously estimated — if officials had fully expanded its main health care program for the poor under the federal Affordable Care Act, a new nonpartisan…

On Thursday Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to Republican Gov. Scott Walker in which she asked Gov. Walker for an update on his efforts to transition the nearly 63,000 Wisconsinites who will lose their BadgerCare coverage thanks to decisions made by Gov. Walker. Specifically, Sen. Baldwin requested…

Scoring political points on the backs of the poor? One word: Disgusting. Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is notifying 92,000 Wisconsin residents this month that their health insurance through BadgerCare Plus will end this year, requiring them to buy a subsidized but potentially more costly commercial health plan through the federal…

On Monday, May 20, Republican State Senator Terry Moulton held a listening session in Elk Mound. During said listening session, Sen. Moulton was asked if he would support an expansion of Medicaid/Badgercare, and to everyone’s surprise he stated unequivocally that he supported it. Sen. Moulton was then asked if he’d…