Scott Walker's Plan To Take Control Of Medicaid Decisions In Wisconsin

WASHINGTON -- So far, most of the attention on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) budget repair bill has focused on the section that would strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. Less noticed is a provision in the 144-page piece of legislation that could dramatically change the state's Medicaid program.

The bill would grant the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) sweeping authority to making changes to the state's Medicaid program -- which covers one in five residents -- with virtually no public scrutiny. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, Walker's plan would use "emergency" powers to allow DHS to restrict eligibility, raise premiums and change reimbursements -- all moves traditionally controlled by the legislature.

Jon Peacock, research director of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, equated it to if President Obama gave Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius total power to rewrite Medicare policy, even though it wouldn't save any money in the current fiscal year.

"That's what you have here in what's being proposed," said Peacock. "If President Obama proposed that, there would be rallies all over the country, and we would be marching out there arm in arm with Tea Party members, protesting against it."

Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/scott-walker-medicaid-wisconsin_n_826821.html

There's this, the collective bargaining part, the part about selling off the state's assets without even taking bids - what else is there?

burger king like the rest of us. They'll give him 1 free with his (not so) happy mean. Plus they'll give him a cool toy!

Nobody's stopping him.

What a "man"!!!! Balance the budget on the backs of not only working people, but the poor and disabled. That will show then who is in charge.

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will go after disabled children, cutting them off of Medicaid here in PA.

Republicans, putting the "R" in reprehensible.

I am sure he will get rid of that program as well as others. The important thing is to give the wealthy all the tax breaks possible and stick it to the poor, needy, as well as the middle class.

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