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Wisc. lawmaker blocks cancer treatment bill after insurance lobbyist brother opposes it
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BodieTown
(147 posts)If Wisconsin were to die, the autopsy would show massive signs of malignant Kochism and an addiction to sociopaths.
unionthug777
(740 posts)and they'll get re-elected. I'd go back to where I came from...except, I'd still be in Wisconsin...granted farther north.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Hell is too good for these people.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)At one point in history they would try to hide this relationship. Not anymore... They don't care that we know a legislator and a lobbyist are brothers. They just say "fuck'em" and do want they want...
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)if they do they know they will forget it in an hour or 2.
hue
(4,949 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)would not put it past the insurance industry that it's a national effort.
kairos12
(12,817 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Just coincidence....
AAO
(3,300 posts)But then, we would know the names of those that killed it, wouldn't we? I think Scott Fitzgerald is from a bright red area, possibly Waukesha, and has no worries about being reelected. FUCK. WAD.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)For shame.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I used to be proud of my state. No longer.
I'm from California if asked.
Fuck the bastards.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)It's official, we are the hemorrhoid on the ass of America.
yuiyoshida
(41,765 posts)Many of them would gladly pull some lever if it mean more money for the Republican party or more money to line their own pockets. They would gut every program and live off the blood and guts of every person who could no longer afford a house, a car, or a job.
Nothing for you!!!!
erronis
(14,955 posts)That advertise everywhere (including NPR) and are trying to get the bank accounts of cancer patients that are so frightened that they'd fall prey to these wolves?
BodieTown
(147 posts)Because I did not.
This is his (Jeff M Fitzgerald) firm's website.
EDIT: The name of the bill was the "Cancer Treatment Fairness Act".
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Both of them.
I hate what my state has become and the fact that there are folks dumb enough to keep voting for this crap.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Creeps...scum...slime...sleaze balls...
And on and on.
lobodons
(1,290 posts)Romans in a Trojan Horse maybe. But NOT Christians!!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Fuck Republicans and fuck Democrats that pretend Republicans are reasonable decent people.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Madison The state Senate overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to help curb costs for cancer patients taking chemotherapy pills and another vote was scheduled for Thursday in the Assembly, where Republicans could still make changes that could kill the measure.
GOP Gov. Scott Walker hadn't taken a firm position on the measure by late Tuesday, though his spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick, said Walker would likely be "inclined" to sign it if the Assembly backs the measure by as wide a margin as the Senate did.
Walker's Democratic opponent, Mary Burke, supports the bill.
The proposal approved 30-2 by the Senate would require health plans to provide the same coverage for expensive chemotherapy drugs taken as pills at home as they do for the expensive chemotherapy administered through IVs at hospitals or clinics.
"Oral chemo is the wave of the future," said Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), a breast cancer survivor and lead sponsor of the measure in her house. "In a big way today we're bringing our statutes up to speed of the technology of this drug."
Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/stalled-cancer-bill-now-appears-headed-for-a-senate-vote-b99228036z1-250789571.html#ixzz2wPT8peOr
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wordpix
(18,652 posts)ffr
(22,649 posts)2014
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