Scott Walker picks Obamacare over Medicaid

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/walkers-health-remedy-obamacare-with-a-twist-87634.html?hp=l4

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, avowed Obamacare foe, proposed an ambitious plan Wednesday to cut his state’s uninsured population in half — by getting them covered through Obamacare.

The Republican announced that he is rejecting Medicaid expansion and the billions of federal dollars that would come with it. In fact, he’s proposing a net cut in the state Medicaid program.

Walker would take thousands of people currently on Wisconsin’s relatively generous Medicaid program — people who are above the federal poverty level — and move them into the Obamacare exchange instead, where they can get federally subsidized private insurance. Walker has already said he won’t run the exchange, requiring the federal government to take control instead.

Once that group is out of Medicaid, he’d permit more of the state’s poorest residents to come in. But overall, Medicaid enrollment would drop by about 5,400, according to estimates provided by Walker’s office.

sorry we are back to those with smiling faces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgA2Sn3b6OM

Walker packaged his plan as a responsible effort to cut into the ranks of the state’s uninsured while weaning low-income residents off a reliance on entitlement programs. He took credit for expanding coverage to about 225,000 more people — though the net gain would come through the federal program.

 Advocates say people are better off in the exchanges, because they would have private insurance and more access to health care providers. But groups like Families USA say that Medicaid is generally a better deal for low-income people, because they are exposed to far fewer out-of-pocket costs.

ah there it is more money in insurance coffers and less in the patients, i knew there was something beneficial to right wing sponsors and ripping to "we the people" Walker never dissapoints he is still a ............... you fill in that blank.