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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.
On a subject as complex and as grave as health care reform, there is no substitute for honest accounting. And when the health of millions is at stake, the burden of proof is a heavy one.
The disastrous Donald Trump/Paul Ryan scheme on health care proposes to gut protections for consumers from abuses by health insurance companies, would make many Americans pay more for less insurance coverage and could cost an estimated 23 million people their insurance altogether.
Public officials in Marquette County apparently know how to get the biggest bang for their buck when it comes to transportation. They have the best roads in the state, while receiving almost the smallest amount of state aid per mile, according to the DOT and the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
The deny, delay and decay approach to transportation in Wisconsin threatens our economic prosperity. But so does an over reliance on bonding, without any plan on how to pay down that debt.
And how a fee on trucks could solve state’s transportation problem.
The same sickening science-free song keeps seeping from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources which Scott Walker is managing with his self-described “chamber of commerce mentality.”
We each must choose to make a conscious effort to step back into the light of civility, strengthen our communication, and self-correct each time we stumble … and who better to first cross the aisle as unified partners, than our elected officials.
If we truly hope to stop these horrific acts of violence and begin to heal our deep political divides, we all need to denounce hate speech and the sharing of false or misleading information, particularly online.
We’re both deeply concerned that the political system in Wisconsin — as in so much of the country — is broken.
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.
On a subject as complex and as grave as health care reform, there is no substitute for honest accounting. And when the health of millions is at stake, the burden of proof is a heavy one.
The disastrous Donald Trump/Paul Ryan scheme on health care proposes to gut protections for consumers from abuses by health insurance companies, would make many Americans pay more for less insurance coverage and could cost an estimated 23 million people their insurance altogether.
Public officials in Marquette County apparently know how to get the biggest bang for their buck when it comes to transportation. They have the best roads in the state, while receiving almost the smallest amount of state aid per mile, according to the DOT and the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
The deny, delay and decay approach to transportation in Wisconsin threatens our economic prosperity. But so does an over reliance on bonding, without any plan on how to pay down that debt.
And how a fee on trucks could solve state’s transportation problem.
The same sickening science-free song keeps seeping from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources which Scott Walker is managing with his self-described “chamber of commerce mentality.”
We each must choose to make a conscious effort to step back into the light of civility, strengthen our communication, and self-correct each time we stumble … and who better to first cross the aisle as unified partners, than our elected officials.
If we truly hope to stop these horrific acts of violence and begin to heal our deep political divides, we all need to denounce hate speech and the sharing of false or misleading information, particularly online.
We’re both deeply concerned that the political system in Wisconsin — as in so much of the country — is broken.
