Month: February 2013

Activists and Democrats were out stumping Tuesday in opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to reject $12 billion in federal health care aid, a rejection that the governor’s office calls a move toward “entitlement reform.” Kevin Kane of Citizen Action of Wisconsin and Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, held a news conference and rally Tuesday at the Brown County Courthouse to protest Walker’s plan. (GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE, 2/20)

Richard Witt thought his wife was lucky. Over the course of 18 years, Kathy Witt was diagnosed with five types of cancer: ovarian, brain, cervical-spine, spine, breast. In 2008, at the age of 65, she had survived them all. Doctors called her the “miracle lady,” Richard Witt said. (WISCONSINWATCH.ORG, 2/18)

Gov. Scott Walker's plan to move more people off state Medicaid plans and onto private insurance through a federal marketplace won't result in cutting the number of uninsured Wisconsin residents in half as promised, an independent analyst said Thursday. Walker's numbers are inflated because poor people near the poverty line won't be able to afford private health insurance that requires individuals to pay for annual deductibles and other cost-sharing expenses, Bob Laszewski, a Washington-based insurance industry consultant, told The Associated Press after reviewing the Republican governor's plan. (AP, 2/15)