Tag: Medicaid

The story has always been…Wisconsin spent far more for Medicaid than it should have…if it had taken the Affordable Care Acts expansion and the attached federal funds…it would have saved money. Governor Scott Walker and the GOP legislature didn’t do that…they put their own little expansion in place and we…

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…

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…

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…

Hey…it’s a great campaign slogan…but actually, Medicare For All is a crock…Medicare is an expensive and complicated program that wouldn’t work for the entire populace. Today Medicare has two basic plans provided by the government. When you sign up for Medicare, Part A, major catastrophic coverage, is touted as free….

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…

As I wrote earlier this week, Kansas was one of the red states considering accepting the Medicaid expansion that is part of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare…when can we stop akaing this thing?). Well the Kansas state legislature passed the bill authorizing the request, but solid gold Tea Party…

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…

In the previous article I outlined that a number of states are considering applying for the Medicaid expansion that is part of the Affordable Care Act. And despite that fact…and the fact that even Republican governors who are deep ideologues as Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker have taken the expansion, Gov….