Walker uses federal Medicaid bonus money to pad surplus... I knew it had to be something like this.

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I heard him touting his budget surplus the other day, good to know it's built on the backs of sick children.


Every year, the federal government awards states a CHIPRA performance bonus for increasing enrollment of uninsured children in the Medicaid program. Last year, Wisconsin received a bonus of more than $24.5 million. But according to Jon Peacock from the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, the Walker Administration failed to put that money back into the state's Medicaid program, known as BadgerCare. Instead, the money was shifted into the general fund and called a "surplus." Walker has been touting a two-year budget surplus of $342 million and a $109 million deposit to the state's rainy day fund, even as organizations that manage BadgerCare threaten to leave the program because the state has decreased its reimbursement rate. Amy talks with Jon Peacock about the issue.



Audio at link
http://www.wtdy.com/Walker-uses-federal-Medicaid-bonus-money-to-pad-su/14570354

[dchill]

1. I hope that, even in today's bizarropublican world...

That this is somehow illegal...

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2. Scott Walker is running a shell game on Wisconsin...how you

like him now, Wisconsin?

Is he going to get a second term?

[Wilms]

3. ^

[Auntie Bush]

4. That's why I disapprove of the state getting the money and doling it out anyway they want instead

of using it toward the intended purpose. It's scares the hell out of me at the thoughts of giving the states control of Medicare money. It should be against the law to be given money for an intended specific purpose and then using it for something else.

I hope now everyone in WI realizes what a lying prick Walker really is and finally vote him out of office. I also hope everyone in the country votes all those conniving crooked Republican Governors out of office. Half the laws they pass turn out to be unconstitutional.

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5. kick