Madison, WI - Governor Scott Walker said "NO" to state exchange and partner exchange.
Wisconsin will kickoff January 1, 2014 with a federal-faciliated health plan.
Today was the deadline for all states to submit an application of decision.
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Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC said, "The decision is accepted and Wisconsin can move forward - mindful of the doomsayers and those who wish to be obstructionist".
It is an innovative time to ensure that all Wisconsinites have access to the best health coverage the law can bear.
It is an innovative time for those who are serious about driving cost down and wellness up, to look long-term and address our country's debt through savings, to step forward and make our state what it can and should be in our national health plan - the Affordable Health Care Act.
Our efforts will be in getting to know the different groups, leveraging power, working with the groups, informing Milwaukeeans to help frame a plan that is infrastructural and a "patient-centered" plan with substance and fairness.
Waiting until the last minute when there were and are benchmarks not completed and some to come soon in 2013, speaks loudly about the politics of Governor Walker's office.
There are market reforms - in and out that must be addressed. There are licensing and solvency concerns. There are actuarial values. There is the reinsurance and on and on.
The Affordable Health Care Act is an once-in-the-century opportunity by which patient-centered health care opportunity can be massively linked to entrepreneurship, education attainment, technology attainment, research and job/career development for starters.
Glass has for the last five months requested information from Commissioner Ted Nickel, Secretary Dennis Smith, Secretary Reggie Newsom and Governor Scott Walker so that information awareness would be at a premium regardless to whether there was a state-exchange, partner-exchange or federal-faciliated exchange. Additionally, so that Milwaukeeans, especially African American, other People of Color and the Work Challenged [un-, under-skilled; un-, under-employed; un-, under-financed neighborhood-level businesses; disabled; and re-entry - those returning from WAR, INCARCERATION, boomerang employment, boomerang retirement and college-certificated graduates unemployed] have a fingerprint in the Wisconsin blueprint. They have refused to share.
So, come on fellow Wisconsinites and Wisconsin legislators, let's embrace the federal-facilitated plan with our go-get it Wisconsin spirit.
Governor Scott Walker's Letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Novmeber 16, 2012
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