Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Wisconsin GOP Cruelty Watch: Efforts to tighten Medicare eligibility requirements aren't over

 
HeadlineWisconsin Examiner, 4/16/2025

Erik Gunn reports:
The bill’s author, Rep. William Penterman (R-Columbus), told the Wisconsin Examiner in an email message Tuesday that the legislation “is still in the Assembly Committee on Public Benefit Reform. The conversation on how to improve the bill is ongoing.” 
State Rep. Ryan Clancy listens to testimony at a public hearing on April 10, 2025, about a bill placing to restrictions on the process of qualifying for Medicaid.  An opponent of the measure, however, suggested that opposition testimony had prevailed in keeping it from moving forward.
“I think you all realized how terrible and harmful that legislation was,” said committee member Rep. Ryan Clancy (D-Milwaukee), directing his comment at his four Republican colleagues. “We heard two and a half hours of testimony overwhelmingly against that [bill].”

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