Afternoon State News Briefs: LFB says state would save $66 million in Medicade expansion
February 5, 2013 at 10:14 am in Pierce County Herald
Wisconsin News — Wisconsin would save about $66-million in state tax dollars over a three-year period if the state agrees to expand Medicaid under the Obama health reform law. The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reviewed the state’s fiscal ramifications of expanding tax-funded health programs like Badger-Care-Plus. And Democrats used that report today in urging Republican Governor Scott Walker to propose that the state expand Medicaid as part of his next two-year state budget.
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