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riversedge

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Thu Aug 2, 2018, 10:34 AM Aug 2018

Gov. Scott Walker is continuing to play politics with people's lives. After turning down #Medicaid

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Blogging Blue's Ed Heinzelman says that Gov. Scott Walker is continuing to play politics with people's lives. After turning down Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin, a move that would have bolstered Obamacare and saved the state close to a billion dollars the past few years, Walker now grandstands that he is holding down Affordable Care Act insurance premiums with big money from the state, Heinzelman complains.

Citizen Action's blog adds that Walker's plan doesn't come near making up for the cost of the governor's and Donald Trump's actions to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, the real reason premium costs have gone up..............

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Gov. Scott Walker is continuing to play politics with people's lives. After turning down #Medicaid (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2018 OP
God, will we ever be rid of these freakin' parasites?! strangedaysindeed Aug 2018 #1
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