Neatly tucked away in the confines of obscure language is the Medical Assistance reform portion of Walker's bill that if read closedly reveals the means by which he provides the path to elimination of - or at the very least extreme cut-back's to - the Medical Assistance program in Wisconsin, known as Badger Care.
While an estimated 70,000 people voice their opinions about being forced into a rule-aligned bargaining agreement with the state of Wisconsin, who is speaking for the victims of diseases, foreign wars, mental disabilities, and poverty due to loss of jobs or injury?
Nobody.
That is sad.
While the Associated Press continuously erroneously reports the situation in Wisconsin (NOTE: all of our schools are in session today, with the exception of those which were snowed-under and delayed 2 hours), and there weren't 200,000 in Madison's capital but rather about 70,000 in and outside of the grounds, protesting their rights to collective bargaining, nobody is speaking out about the helpless people of our society. What is wrong with this picture?
Arizona sentenced a man to death with a denial of a liver transplant after a matched donor had been found because the state couldn't afford it.
What is wrong with this picture?
Put yourself in his shoes. No, put yourself IN his shoes. Do you envision it yet? Do you see that your life will end because you lost your job, nearly lost your home but for hard work and good financial planning you did before you got sick, and now without insurance must tell your little girl that you will leave her before the year ends. Do you see it? Do you feel it?
What are you doing about it?
Read Walker's Bill.
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