According to the campaign finance watchdog group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, members of the health insurance industry donated over $1.27 million to Gov. Walker from 2009 through 2013. Wisconsin Democracy Campaign President Mike McCabe tells 27 News that is close to seven times more than the $183,196 Gov. Jim Doyle got from the same industry from 2005 to 2010. The liberal social justice group Citizen Action of Wisconsin claims there is a direct correlation between those donations and the Governors rejection of the federal Medicaid expansion. ... Citizen Action officials believe theres no doubt Gov. Walkers made his decision to benefit the insurance companies who donated to his campaign. When asked about that specific allegation Monday afternoon, Gov. Walker seemed to be at a rare loss for words. Actually if you think about it, its just the opposite, said Gov. Walker. It means fewer people would be on insurance actually, if...in the end...if there were...more people there theyd be under Medicaid. Its not a, for us, it has no decision one way or the other. To clear up that answer, 27 News specifically asked the Governor if he was saying insurance companies did not benefit at all from his Medicaid decision, even though it meant more customers for them. In the end, Im saying you had people before that were on a wait list. Those werent folks that were affected one way or another by insurance out there. The fact is they werent, to my knowledge, they havent lobbied me personally or anybody in my administration on this, said Gov. Walker.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:55:00 +0000
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