Party of Political Punishers...continues to continue, Rejecting $1.6 billion of our Tax Money!!!

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You don’t deserve the “privilege” of health care says Dumb Ron Johnson to a group of school kids. You can’t make this stuff up…:

Vos-Republicans reject President Biden’s $1 billion American Rescue Plan Act Relief Funding for Wisconsin: The thing is, this is such a massively irresponsible act of pure political idiocy, you gotta ask, where the hell are conservative voters? 90,000 more Wisconsinites could have health care!!!

The bonus provision: Wisconsin would receive an additional $1.025 billion over two years if it agrees to accept the expansion. Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed 2021-23 budget bill includes accepting the ACA Medicaid expansion subsidy, which by itself would save the state $635 million, according to the fiscal memo. The new $1 billion bonus is in addition to that amount.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D), added that rejecting the expansion would be “a costly missed opportunity and a slap in the face to every Wisconsin resident. It was already foolish for Republicans to reject the BadgerCare expansion in the last budget, but we cannot afford to lose out on a billion dollars in additional funding.”

Republican Idea? Dumb, Irresponsible, Simple, and Ridiculous: You can’t just randomly tell insurers to include preexisting conditions. Insurance premiums will skyrocket, and there’s nothing in the bill below preventing that from happening. Even worse, the bill only kicks in if the ACA is repealed: