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Look to Wisconsin for Medicaid reform

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08.06.2025

Medicaid was created to help people living in poverty have access to health care. Under ObamaCare, it was expanded to include able-bodied, working-age adults without children. That was wrong.

When I was governor of Wisconsin, we opted not to take the expansion. First, we could create our own plan for covering everyone living in poverty. We did — and it worked.

My predecessor had raised the income requirements for Medicaid, but did not fund the gap. That left many impoverished people on a waiting list.

Once I was in office, we restored the limits to cover those living in poverty and eliminated the waiting list. Today, my state is the only one in the nation to have no gap in insurance coverage despite not........

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