@vinehoutK: Use New Federal Money For #Badgercare to Help Workers & Lower Premium Costs

[riversedge]

She has a good story about his couple --in the article!

@vinehoutK: Use New Federal Money For #Badgercare to Help Workers & Lower Premium Costs http://www.newiprogressive.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=131&Itemid=63#.U_aJfb2sJyk.twitter … #wipolitics #wiunion

.....I recently asked the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) what the difference in spending would have been, compared to current law, if Wisconsin had fully implemented the federal health law.

Just in the current budget, the state would have saved $206 million (in general funds) and covered another 87,000 people. These numbers are substantially higher than the original estimates made by the LFB during the budget debate. This is, in part, because the state saw higher than expected enrollment in BadgerCare by the very poor.

Recent numbers show taking such action to implement the federal health law would save over $250 million in the next budget. Our Medicaid program is currently on track to run over $200 million in the red. Taking money offered by the feds is clearly the fiscally prudent action.

But more important is our moral obligation to help couples across the state like Mary and Tom.

By helping them, we help ourselves: every uninsured person who gains coverage helps lower insurance premiums for the rest of us..................

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. It pains me

that her candidacy in the recall election was chopped off at the knees by the Democratic establishment.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. That, and her unfortunate car accident.

That multiply-fractured arm seemed to have taken the starch out of her campaign.

[riversedge]

3. Yes, I think

she knew she did not have much official backup (@wisDems) but combined with the physical problems the 'starch' would be taken out of me also--that is for sure.

[Lefta Dissenter]

4. Yes, the accident took her out of this current race,

but her run at the recall election was sabotaged by the Dem establishment who had already decided that Falk was their gal.