[Rick_Michael]

As though we need to expand the problem....lets do it for all the states!? /SARCASM!

Oh, and by the way since Medicare, Medicaid, and SS are taking-up almost all of the budget,...what say you about getting rid of the military and all those 'unnecessary things'!?

You wanted to know what the biggest threat to our military and long-term national security...well, it's already here. You just let this issue slide for another 15 years and/or allow the dems to get office and expand upon the problem...or you educate yourself on how to solve it and you push your politician like hell. That simple!

[Crooked Constituent]

This plan is suppose to help people without health insurance like me. The problem is, I cannot afford the tax increase to pay for it. GRRRRRRR!!! I’ll be calling my state senator in the morning.

[Lancey Howard]

I agree 100% with John Stossel. Like San Fransicko is a great magnet for sodomites and perverts, let Wisconsin be a magnet for all the parasites and bums (the Democrat “base”) who want “free stuff”. I hope Wisconsin pulls tons of people away from civilized states (especially Pennsylvania!).

[Iris7]

Federal government medical care is in the bag. It will happen. This certainty does not please me.

Pretty soon, too. My guess is less than ten years. Maybe less than five.

[knarf]

So that's why milk has gone up.

[VRWCRick]

Wisconsin gets to carry on the Tenn Care debacle and experience utter failure. It will be very interesting to read in a year or two how the system is going broke and people and employers are fleeing the state to escape the high taxes.

So-called “universal health care” with all the competence of Ray Nagin and the school buses. Wisconsin has just consigned itself to being a financial black hole.

[the invisib1e hand]

“HillaryCare” spreads like a disease. New York already has something called “Healthy New York” and it was posted on FR some time ago that it looked like a HillaryCare starter-kit. Now it’s spawining.

[knuthom]

If Wisconsin does this, they should be prepared to pay for a lot of Chicago area patients. They will establish phony Wisconsin addresses with friends or relatives in southern Wisconsin. That used to be the case when WI had a better welfare system than IL.

[chrisser]

Here’s the fun part:

If it succeeds in Wisconsin (it won’t but humor me), then “progressives” will point to that state as an example of why we need healthcare run by the feds.

When it fails in Wisconsin, the failure will be blamed on people from other states overwhelming the system, something that would be solved if healthcare were run by the feds.

No matter what happens, they will use the result to push for healthcare at the federal level, and just like Social Security, by the time everyone realizes what a disaster it is, enough people will be sucking at that teet, or don’t remember what the alternative was like, that it can never be undone.

[The Great RJ]

Wisconsin’s greatest export will no long be cheese but businesses and disgruntled tax payers.

[KS Flyover]

Bump!

[HamiltonJay]

Wisconsin’s a great state, but Madison just threw them under the bus with this one. So far they have been able to hold onto the paper mills, and been able to shift much of the factory work they have lost to China to smaller companies through creative and generally successful policies.

This one however is going to bankrupt them, most likely.

HOWEVER.........

Wisconsin being the only state that guarantees health insurance availability may also make it a magnet for industries looking to dump their health care liabilities. If the tax to the government for not carrying health care as a benefit to ones employees is less than (or increases less than) the market rate private insurance, which has been rising at nearly 10% a year for the last few years Wisconsin could see a boom as companies move there to remove health care costs as a major draw on their bottom lines.

The issue will be how much Wisconsin can keep prices in check, by becoming such a large buyer, can they leverage that into controlling costs more effectively?

Will be an interesting thing to watch....

Personally, I think one way or another health care for all will be coming nationwide, as the large companies demand to get out from under their obligations for it, and argue the need to dump it in order to compete globally. I only pray it will not be a forced system, and private health care will remain available for those who desire it.

[swilliams53]

I have a question? Will the ‘Healthy Wisconsin’ health care system treat and cure the chronic cancer called ‘Healthy Wisconsin’ that is inundating the state and it’s budget?