Walker's tenure has been disastrous..over-billed family planning clinics 93%

I have a feeling this over-billing was planned--bleed the family clinics dry! I am so sick of that slimmy weasel!



Monday, Apr 20, 2015 10:23 AM CST
Scott Walker is the absolute worst: Beneath his “Everyman” facade, a grossly incompetent administration

Joan Walsh Walker's tenure has been disastrous. The latest proof? His administration over-billed family planning clinics 93%



............Walker’s New Hampshire “Everyman” performance was widely covered in the national media. His family planning screw-up was not.

One agency, which serves rural Northeastern Wisconsin, was billed $1.169 million for overcharging the state for contraceptive costs over two years – a charge that almost equaled its entire annual operating budget of $1.2 million. That was reduced to $180,000, which the agency is still contesting. The other clinic was billed $2.35 million, now reduced to $45,000.

Of course, the agencies incurred big legal costs in challenging the state’s faulty billing, so their leaders were galled to discover the change in billing came with “no apology whatsoever,” in the words of one director.

But why would Walker apologize? His anti-family planning agenda has already forced the closure of five Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics.

Longtime Wisconsin progressive activist and blogger James Rowen compares Walker’s purported billing “mistake” to an episode earlier this year, in which he falsely blamed ugly changes to the state’s higher education mandate on a “drafting error” – when they were clearly ordered by his underlings.

This weekend also brought the news that the budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin system that were approved (after the language changes were reversed) will cost UW-Madison 400 jobs. That translates to 320 fewer courses offered in 2016-2017,...................................................