Scott Walker’s decision to reject funds for BadgerCare does damage to state Green Bay Press

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Green Bay Press Gazette | Page A004 Monday, 22 June 2015
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Walker’s decision to reject funds for BadgerCare does damage to state

ROBERT KRAIG AND KEVIN KANE

FOR GANNETT WISCONSIN MEDIA

Gov. Walker’s refusal to accept hundreds of millions of federal dollars for BadgerCare provided by the Affordable Care Act maybe the worst in Wisconsin history.

The disastrous decision is getting worse and worse, creating an artificial budget crisis which is forcing completely avoidable cuts to our schools and universities.

There is the obvious damage being done every day by needlessly taking away affordable health care from tens of thousands of Wisconsinites just above the poverty line. Walker and his extreme conservative defenders in the Legislature claim these folks will have access to another part of the Affordable Care Act, the online health insurance marketplace. But the subsidies provided there were never intended for people with incomes this low.

Access to affordable health care is so fundamental to freedom in the 21st century that it would be well worth it to spend more money to guarantee coverage. If you don’t have access to health care, you and your family are one major injury or one major illness away from both financial ruin and the risk of not receiving needed medical care.

What is most stunning............

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1. Always lament the media figures it out after the election

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2. I wonder with the supreme court ruling if something about equal access to health care could prevail.

If I understand what the courts just ruled on. It was that ACA was constitutional and kept in tact. Now that this is cleared, should the discussion of what/where to come up with money removed from the federal exchange moot.


"The average subsidy in Wisconsin is $315 a month, compared to the national average of $272.

One reason Wisconsin is especially dependent on the federal exchange is because Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature lowered the income level to qualify for BadgerCare, which eliminated state coverage for about 63,000 adults.

The Supreme Court will decide if the government can keep giving subsidies to middle- and low-income people in 34 states that use the federal exchange, at healthcare.gov.

If the court says no, Congress could amend the health care law to allow subsidies in those states, or the states could create their own exchanges as other states did."


http://www.insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2015/06/17/loss-of-obamacare-subsidies-could-hit-rural-wisconsin-most.html