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Home » Press Releases » A Better Wisconsin Together: On Medicaid’s 61st birthday, Tom Tiffany hopes it’s the last
MADISON, Wis. — 61 years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicaid into law and helped generations of Americans find and afford essential healthcare. Six decades later, Wisconsin’s very own Republican Congressman - and now gubernatorial candidate - Tom Tiffany voted to gut the program and kick more than 200,000 Wisconsinites to the curb without care....