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11. Was there Medicaid expansion in WI or not?
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 08:19 PM
Jan 2015

Single payer is in the ACA. Each state with a majority that wants it, can have it (see VT) but even with that, at times it fails through the legislature. This is our job to do this.

For some reason there are enough people in WI even if we think they are crazy, that put this guy and his pals in office. There have not been real world repercussions for what he has done, nor for what Christie has done. Good luck to WI in changing things there, maybe this is signaling a change?

We didn't get single payer, but many of us wanted it. Instead, we went with something else. Although we did Medicaid expansion, which for the poor, and for them it is like single payer. A lot of people qualify for it and are doing very well with many services provided in insurance, transportation and other necessities.

Any defense of the ACA may help and Canadians have reminded us that it took them TWENTY YEARS after their first legislation to get away from for-profit health care to their current plan which is better than ours.

I think the American people, at least those who are being honest, will eventually go for single payer nationally, but at this point, it's up to the states. It can be had, though.

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