tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post5219189652515006487..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: The Medicaid foolishness on tomorrow's agendaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-34500409033830603862013-06-03T22:46:25.986-05:002013-06-03T22:46:25.986-05:00That does line up with the huge borrowing and fire...That does line up with the huge borrowing and fire sale of public assets in the next budget: after June 2015 we're in need of miraculous monies to make the state budget work, a budget that Walker will have to take national responsibility for if it is his intention to run in both 2014 and 2016.<br /><br />We won't know for sure whether he's running in 2014 or not until June 2nd next year with the GAB's <a href="http://gab.wi.gov/sites/default/files/gab_forms/3/gabis_9_ball_acc_const_leg_rev_2013_05_pdf_14622.pdf" rel="nofollow">filing deadline</a>, but there are three possibilities:<br /><br />(a) Walker loses in 2014 and his political career is over.<br />(b) Walker wins in 2014 and the 2016 GOP candidate debates go:<br />Walker: "And I balanced Wisconsin's budget..."<br />Christie: "So how come your debt is skyrocketing?"<br />Walker: "Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that".<br />(c) Walker doesn't run in 2014 and the 2016 GOP candidate debates go:<br />Walker: "And I balanced Wisconsin's budget..."<br />Christie: "So how come Wisconsin's debt is skyrocketing?"<br />Walker: "Because the new Wisconsin Governor is undoing all my good work. That's a good excuse, right?"<br /><br />Running in 2014 doesn't have much upside for Walker.GeoffThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317722272565026078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-30552425044730798782013-06-03T20:22:04.551-05:002013-06-03T20:22:04.551-05:00And on that note, Geoff, here's the J-S with a... And on that note, Geoff, here's the J-S with another report mentioning that <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/business/costs-of-expanding-health-coverage-reduced-by-fewer-hospital-stays-study-shows-b9925050z1-209974051.html" rel="nofollow"> when people have health coverage, they are less likely to need to be in the hospital for care. </a> Classic case of "an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure."<br /><br /> But I'm also convinced part of Walker/ WisGOP's real goal is to hamstring the next guv from digging the state out of the hole that they're causing. That's the only way Walker's policy makes any sense. Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-76633949713595111052013-06-03T20:10:13.096-05:002013-06-03T20:10:13.096-05:00> "Work Makes You Free" plan
Wiscons...> "Work Makes You Free" plan<br /><br />Wisconsin is thus <a href="http://www.bls.gov/lau/ststdsadata.txt" rel="nofollow">less free than when he started</a> then, going from 63.5% of the adult civilian noninstitutional population being employed to 63.3% in April.<br /><br />But for the general gist of your post, this is clearly Walker taking the option to hurt as all Wisconsinites as much as possible: whether via lack of Medicaid coverage, or in the higher insurance premiums the insured will have to pay, or the jobs we won't see or making up the loss of those jobs' tax revenues by paying higher taxes/having fewer services than we otherwise would. There simply is no upside to refusing the Medicaid expansion.GeoffThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317722272565026078noreply@blogger.com