Walker's Budget Deficit Enables Deep BadgerCare Cuts

[hue]

http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-18564-walkers-budget-deficit-enables-deep-badgercare-cuts.html

Although Gov. Scott Walker is boasting on the campaign trail that he has balanced the state budget, the federal government has certified his statement that the state will have a budget deficit by July 2013, which will allow Walker to hike BadgerCare premiums. An estimated 17,000 people will leave the program because they will no longer be able to afford it.
Beginning in July, about 33,000 of those remaining on BadgerCare will see their premiums increase as much as 10 times what they are currently paying.
The Walker administration is still pursuing federal permission to raise co-pays and decrease covered health care services utilized by an additional 300,000 individuals.

The changes could have been even more significant, but the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) determined that roughly only a quarter of the changes the Walker administration had sought were legal under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).

[freshwest]

1. As intended since Reagan.

[Scuba]

2. On the plus side, corporate investors in London and Hong Kong are very pleased with their tax cut.