State might not cut 53,000 from Medicaid by year's end

Even if a year-end deadline runs out, the state won't automatically move to drop health care coverage for tens of thousands of low-income adults as previously expected, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday. In a second change in direction by the Republican governor, Walker said the state is suspending plans to implement the federal health care overhaul in Wisconsin while the nation's highest court considers whether to uphold that law. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 12/23)