Wisconsin

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2013, 10:51 AM Dec 2013

Help with a response on the Medicaid issue??

Help, I'm at work without a lot of time to decipher all the posts about Medicaid expansion, but I did get a response from my Repub. Assemblyman (see below). I sent a critical note to him after I received his eNewsletter, in which he criticized ObamaCare.

I'd like to respond, but need some advice from someone more knowledgeable. Scuba? Help!

I did read your post on Medicaid, but I confess, I have too many other things to do here to sit and decipher. Sorry! I'm not lazy, just busy!

Response from Warren Petryk:

Thank you for your input on the ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act) federal health exchanges. I appreciate you taking the time to contact me on this issue.

As you know, Governor Walker determined that Wisconsin would utilize the federal exchanges in lieu of starting our own state exchanges. Wisconsin is one of 36 states who made this same decision with the hope that the federal government, who designed this program, would be capable of executing a successful exchange.

State exchanges around the nation have not been successful either. For example, the state of Oregon’s exchange has not yet enrolled a single individual and Massachusetts, the state in which ObamaCare is based, has only enrolled roughly 800 people. U.S. Secretary of Health, Kathleen Sebelius, also could not report on the failures or successes of Hawaii, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia.

Unfortunately, the federal exchange has not yet been proven successful and people everywhere continue to struggle to get the health insurance they are mandated to have. Therefore, I do believe that the Governor and the Legislature are doing what is best to ensure that no one goes without health care by extending the deadlines for BadgerCare and HIRSP.

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Help with a response on the Medicaid issue?? (Original Post) Lifelong Protester Dec 2013 OP

Maybe Scuba's post here can help. BlueCaliDem Dec 2013 #1

The state exchanges are doing just fine. Check out California. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #2

looking at his voting says it all............. riversedge Dec 2013 #4

Most of the articles I see have emphasized the riversedge Dec 2013 #3

does this help? Pharaoh Dec 2013 #5

Petryk's phrase "have not been successful" is only his opinion, not the reality that's unfolding. hue Dec 2013 #6

Thank you, these did help Lifelong Protester Dec 2013 #7

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)

1. Maybe Scuba's post here can help.

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 11:16 AM

Dec 2013

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10849881

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

2. The state exchanges are doing just fine. Check out California.

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 11:44 AM

Dec 2013

In Massachussetts, just about everyone was already enrolled in Romneycare.

I know Warren Petryk. He is a lying little asshole whom I despise.

I realize this isn't particularly helpful to answer your question, but just hearing Petryk's name was enough to bring up my gorge.

riversedge

(70,218 posts)

4. looking at his voting says it all.............

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 08:49 PM

Dec 2013

he is not from my area but seems to be a teabagger with extra tea!

http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/127200/warren-petryk#.UqEeeCeaJGM

riversedge

(70,218 posts)

3. Most of the articles I see have emphasized the

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 08:34 PM

Dec 2013

first part--the delay of 3 months, which makes Walker sound like a hero! But there is a 2nd part to his bill:=that has gotten very little attention.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/wisconsin-assembly-votes-to-delay-removing-poor-from-badgercare-20131204

....The delay also postpones coverage for even more of the state's poor. An estimated 83,000 residents living below the federal poverty line who would become newly eligible for the program Jan. 1 could also have to wait the three months. Democrats sent letters protesting the plan.

"You intend to pay for the cost of extending Medicaid/BadgerCare to these low-income Wisconsin citizens by delaying coverage to even poorer Wisconsin citizens by the same three months," wrote Democratic state Sen. Tim Cullen in a letter to Walker. "Put simply, you propose to pay to cover the second-lowest income group by delaying coverage to the very poorest Wisconsin citizens who have no coverage today.". ...
Wisconsin Assembly Votes to Delay Removing Poor From BadgerCare

Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)

5. does this help?

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 10:19 PM

Dec 2013

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024139083

hue

(4,949 posts)

6. Petryk's phrase "have not been successful" is only his opinion, not the reality that's unfolding.

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Original post)

Fri Dec 6, 2013, 07:26 AM

Dec 2013

For many thousands of Americans the ACA has changed their lives so positively.
The Wi Republican Assembly has been instructed to stealthily obstruct healthcare for the poor and lower classes thus we may think that the ACA is not working. But it is only because our Republican politicians have obstructed, voted to refuse healthcare to about 83 thousand Wisconsinites until April.
In essence the Repub majority has put up road blocks for full implementation of the ACA.

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)

7. Thank you, these did help

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Original post)

Fri Dec 6, 2013, 01:23 PM

Dec 2013

I will be putting together a response this weekend. I found his response more than a little disingenuous.

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