Wednesday, June 5, 2013

$490,000,000: The Partial Cost of Republican Ideology to Wisconsin Taxpayers


JFC Approves Medicaid Plan Costing $490 Million More through FY 2020. (Wisconsin Budget Project, 6/4/2013)

Excerpt:With the added funding for hospitals (which is just for the 2013-15 biennium), the Governor’s plan is now expected to cost state taxpayers about $490 million GPR more during the period 2014 through fiscal year 2020, compared to the compromise offered by Democrats on the committee

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Today’s addition of $30 million to the [budget] bill is an acknowledgment that the strategy of trying to move low-income adults from BadgerCare into the higher cost coverage in the new health insurance exchange will result in 
  • more uninsured Wisconsinites, 
  • less emphasis on preventative care, and 
  • higher costs for hospitals. 

Republicans happily use the tools provided for them by the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Related posts:
More cookie-cutter legislation from ALEC.  (4/7/2013)
The New York Times Provides an overview of school choice without mentioning ALEC's orchestration.  (3/28/2013)
Selling state properties:  It's in the ALEC toolkit.  (2/17/2013)
Performance funding: They love this stuff at the Lumina Foundation and ALEC. (11/19/2012)
Splashy full-page ad for a movie few want to see.  (9/30/2012)
AT&;T, ALEC have their way with South Carolina legislature.  (7/2/2012)
What the Koch Brothers left under Scott Walker's 2010 Christmas tree.  (6/19/2012)“
….really, what ALEC is, is a bipartisan association of state legislators….” (Wisconsin State Senate version, 4/10/2012)“
….really, what ALEC is, is a bipartisan association of state legislators….” (Wisconsin State Assembly version, 4/9/2012)

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