Tag: Medicaid

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…

Many of us who followed the developments surrounding the implementation of the Affordable Care Act are aware that one of the focus points was the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid. Initially destined for all of the states, the Supreme Court ruled that since states were part of the financial equation…

Since the major combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan started winding down, there have been repeated and unsolved issues with providing adequate and timely healthcare for our veterans. Despite repeated assurances and varied lip service out of Washington, things just don’t seem to be getting better. Even with new rules…

Well how very Christian of Gov. Scott Walker to want to kick poor people off their health insurance. Defending his fellow Republican governors’ decision to block Medicaid expansion in their states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday suggested that denying health coverage to additional low-income Americans helps more people…

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…

But remember folks – Gov. Scott Walker is “fiscally responsible.” (emphasis added). Wisconsin’s Medicaid fund faces a shortfall of $93 million in state tax dollars through the end of the biennium, according to a report sent to members of the Joint Finance Committee. The shortfall is up from an estimated…

This month’s award recognizing an outstanding achievement in rank ignorance is given to state Rep. Amy Loudenbeck (R-Clinton).  Loudenbeck, in response to a bill put forth by state Rep Melissa Sargent which would allow individual counties access to federal Affordable Care Act money to expand Medicaid for their respective residents,…

This is going to be shooting from the hip without double checking the facts…so if I got my timeline wrong let me know: Before the 2012 Presidential election, Governor Walker delayed making a decision on setting up a Wisconsin Health Exchange or deferring to the federal government. Certainly he expected…

Among the little-known provisions of the biennial state budget proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker and rubber-stamped by Republicans in the Legislature is a provision buried in the budget that would drastically expand the state’s ability to claim dead couples’ joint property – even if the assets are protected in…