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Scott Walker just piled on the working poor when he blamed them for freeloading off Medicare, because you know what those people in poverty love working for small paychecks or enjoy being unemployed.
jsoline: The state would turn down a full expansion of the BadgerCare program under the federal health care law but 224,600 more state residents would still gain coverage as the law takes effect … his proposal would reduce the role of government in people’s lives and make them more independent.
“Some people will portray this as not caring about people. I think it’s just the opposite. I care too much about the people of this state not to empower them to control their own destiny,” Walker told the audience.
Jon Peacock, research director of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, said the governor’s proposal would push tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients into the private insurance marketplaces.
pay a maximum premium of $230 a year – or $19 a month – for the coverage through the exchanges. A family of four with income just above the poverty level – $24,000 – would pay a premium of up to $480.
The Kaiser Family Foundation of the years 2013 through 2022, the Medicaid expansion was expected to cost Wisconsin an additional $725 million, with the federal government providing $13.76 billion. By the year 2022, that study calculated that an additional 211,000 Wisconsinites would receive Medicaid coverage through the expansion.
A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com
2013-02-13 19:00:32
Source: http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/02/walker-makes-wisconsin-taxpayers-pay.html