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More than 500,000 Wisconsin children are covered by Medicaid. These children, along with the 750,000 older, disabled and low-income Wisconsinites who rely on Medicaid, are now in jeopardy.
While the Obamacare haters in Wisconsin government blamed the “failed” ACA for Anthem’s withdrawal, the real story is that they have been sabotaging Obamacare for years, creating an environment for health insurance companies that made it untenable for many of them to stay in the marketplace.
The Supreme Court rendered what may prove to be one of its most important decisions protecting the free speech rights of Americans.
Wisconsinites ought to be cautious about any bill that implicates free speech rights in any way.
It may well be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, but just try to find a Republican in the UW-Madison sociology department.
Four golf professionals recently learned they can now sue the city of Madison over claims their contracts with the city were terminated in 2012 without good cause.
Wisconsin’s income taxes are among the highest in the country, as are its property taxes.
Wigderson is now owner/editor but Charlie says he’s still “conservative.”
Prior to the ACA, Wisconsin consumers could choose from over 20 individual insurance companies offering coverage in our state. These included for-profit and not-for-profit companies; HMO’s and PPOs; and local and national insurers. There were a variety of plan options to meet a range of coverage needs.
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Republican proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the possibility looms that Wisconsin could lose billions of dollars over time for the very reason the GOP hated Obamacare in the first place.
Obamacare doesn’t work. It’s failing before our eyes. And as bad as it has been in Wisconsin, some other states have seen even higher price increases and more limited options.
A closer look at the public option
Smart politicians could find a safe harbor in programs that work — expand Medicare Advantage and let employers keep their plans if they so choose.
If the state Senate and governor embrace Vos and Kremer’s wrongheaded way of thinking, an ugly combination of intimidation and uncertainty will define the discourse on campuses where avid debate, and serious competition in the battle of ideas and ideals, should be the order of the day.
Knee-jerk reaction to school choice legislation.
Current school funding proposals add up to a future that is increasingly unequal.
When will Wisconsin choose a course correction that no longer encourages increasing milk production in a glutted market, or further expansions of CAFOs that require land-spreading of millions of gallons of liquid manure over known vulnerable land, or the drilling of ever-more high-capacity wells?
Given that Sensenbrenner won his first election to the state legislature before both Woodstock and Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, he has seen the Republican Party undergo numerous identity crises.
This week the WisOpinion.com Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, make a bet Congress will develop and pass a huge infrastructure bill this fall. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The WisPolitics.com Book Club this week talks to Mark Johnson, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a co-author of “One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine,” about how Wisconsin doctors using bold new methods helped save the life of a Monona child.
More than 500,000 Wisconsin children are covered by Medicaid. These children, along with the 750,000 older, disabled and low-income Wisconsinites who rely on Medicaid, are now in jeopardy.
While the Obamacare haters in Wisconsin government blamed the “failed” ACA for Anthem’s withdrawal, the real story is that they have been sabotaging Obamacare for years, creating an environment for health insurance companies that made it untenable for many of them to stay in the marketplace.
The Supreme Court rendered what may prove to be one of its most important decisions protecting the free speech rights of Americans.
Wisconsinites ought to be cautious about any bill that implicates free speech rights in any way.
It may well be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, but just try to find a Republican in the UW-Madison sociology department.
Four golf professionals recently learned they can now sue the city of Madison over claims their contracts with the city were terminated in 2012 without good cause.
Wisconsin’s income taxes are among the highest in the country, as are its property taxes.
Wigderson is now owner/editor but Charlie says he’s still “conservative.”
Prior to the ACA, Wisconsin consumers could choose from over 20 individual insurance companies offering coverage in our state. These included for-profit and not-for-profit companies; HMO’s and PPOs; and local and national insurers. There were a variety of plan options to meet a range of coverage needs.
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Republican proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the possibility looms that Wisconsin could lose billions of dollars over time for the very reason the GOP hated Obamacare in the first place.
Obamacare doesn’t work. It’s failing before our eyes. And as bad as it has been in Wisconsin, some other states have seen even higher price increases and more limited options.
A closer look at the public option
Smart politicians could find a safe harbor in programs that work — expand Medicare Advantage and let employers keep their plans if they so choose.
If the state Senate and governor embrace Vos and Kremer’s wrongheaded way of thinking, an ugly combination of intimidation and uncertainty will define the discourse on campuses where avid debate, and serious competition in the battle of ideas and ideals, should be the order of the day.
Knee-jerk reaction to school choice legislation.
Current school funding proposals add up to a future that is increasingly unequal.
When will Wisconsin choose a course correction that no longer encourages increasing milk production in a glutted market, or further expansions of CAFOs that require land-spreading of millions of gallons of liquid manure over known vulnerable land, or the drilling of ever-more high-capacity wells?
Given that Sensenbrenner won his first election to the state legislature before both Woodstock and Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, he has seen the Republican Party undergo numerous identity crises.
This week the WisOpinion.com Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, make a bet Congress will develop and pass a huge infrastructure bill this fall. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The WisPolitics.com Book Club this week talks to Mark Johnson, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a co-author of “One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine,” about how Wisconsin doctors using bold new methods helped save the life of a Monona child.
