Vital Signs: Walker warns Medicaid payments to nursing homes could be delayed if bill not passed

[Bjorn Against]

Source: Madison Capital Times

Gov. Scott Walker turned up the heat on Democratic senators who have left the state rather than vote on his bill by warning Thursday that their actions could force the state to delay payments for patients in nursing homes.

A press statement released by Walker’s office Thursday, along with a brief memo from the Wisconsin Budget office, claims that if the budget repair bill is not soon passed, “the state will no longer be able to pay providers or vendors.”

The statement triggered a furious response from an advocacy group. “The Walker Administration is now using the 1.2 million individuals enrolled in BadgerCare and Medicaid as political hostages,” says Bobby Peterson, executive director of ABC for Health in a press release. “The Walker Administration should stop scaring and threatening the people that need health care coverage in Wisconsin. Health care should be a right NOT a bargaining chip!!”

The dueling press releases were released just hours after around 25 protesters, some of them members of the disabled community in wheelchairs, occupied the offices of the state GOP party waving signs and chanting. The standoff lasted for nearly three hours before protesters left with copies of a letter to Walker from the GOP state executive director, Mark Jefferson, passing along their demand that the governor meet with them. The protesters say they want Walker to hear directly from them their concerns about provisions in the bill that they say will allow the administration to gut the program without legislative or public input.

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Scott Walker is now literally threatening to kill people's Grandmothers if he doesn't get his way. I wonder what all those teabaggers who are worried about death panels will have to say about this.

[Raven]

1. He's sounding a lot like that guy over in Libya. n/t

[Webster Green]

2. What a scumbag piece of shit.

:grr:

[Stuart G]

22. He is worse than that...Threatening to cut of medical payemnts..???nt

[somone]

3. How is he different from a terrorist?

[Vincardog]

4. IS he going to throw Grand Ma's body out of the statehouse? Will he decapitate them on TV?

[Bette Noir]

11. Dead is dead. Being thrown off Medicaid may take a few weeks longer

to kill than beheading, but the ultimate outcome will be the same.

[CountAllVotes]

12. it might not be "grandma"

It might be your best friend, your child, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR FATHER or worse yet even YOU.

:kick:

[Vincardog]

14. But will it be good TV?

[CountAllVotes]

17. I find nothing humerous about this

and certainly nothing to make light of.

[Vincardog]

18. We are commenting on political theater and the lunatic ravings of a RW hack.

[aquart]

47. No, we're commenting on an elected leader holding real people hostage.

[Oak2004]

44. It will be if the dying have the sense not to die in private.

Anyone who will die because of the cutbacks needs to make good use of their death and die on the steps of the nearest and most culpable statehouse. Make it plain as day who killed you. Make those of them who still have the slightest scrap of conscience step over your body en-route to a day of killing more people. Make your death a clear statement, not a quiet tragedy.

[HereSince1628]

5. Brinksmanship requires dire scenarios...it's basic shock doctrine

Everyday Walker will announce more pain. Always ratcheting up the population of the state that's affected and always blaming the democrats, when in reality, he has in his hands the economic compromise he needs.

We are fighting brinksmanship, we've got to let him get more and more extreme. He will become an anathema. He is making Democrats Plan B look more and more likely-his recall next winter.

[beac]

6. Once he's killed some of their grannies THEN will the people 'supporting'

Walker realize he DOESN'T support them???

Will it REALLY take something that drastic to wake some people up?

[Angry Dragon]

9. Simple answer ...... YES

Until people start dying in mass, this country will not change.

[Zoeisright]

7. Wanker is just a despicable thug.

Fuck you, you slimy little piece of shit.

[MidwestTransplant]

8. This guy is doubling down on stupid.

[HereSince1628]

13. As a contemporary Republican he is a confirmed instransigent

For decades the Dems have reinforced the notion that 'we' are compromisers who will in short order cave in to some alternative so that 'the people's work' can be done.

I hope the WI 14 understand that to break Republican intransigence they MUST remain outside the state for perhaps many more weeks. So that recall efforts against Republicans can be initiated for those who are eligible.

[Myrina]

10. He sure does make alot of threats ...

.... when's he going to hold his breath and stamp his feet? Poor Snotty ...

:rofl:

[uppityperson]

15. No way that could backfire, is there? I mean all the family and staff won't join the protest

will they? :sarcasm:

[CLANG]

16. And I repeat again: Fuck you you corporate whore and fascist puppet.

[defendandprotect]

19. GOP right wing/elite government by blackmail, intimidation and threat -- !! As usual!!

[CLANG]

20. I can tell you exactly what they'll say:

< crickets >.......

[BanzaiBonnie]

21. This man is scared spitless

He has lost control of the state of affairs and is so desparate he has to hold a gun to the heads of the elderly and helpless.

Good job Scott Walker.

[JDPriestly]

23. Is cutting Medicaid what Walker and the Koch Brothers call freedom?

They call it freedom. I call it feedom.

(as in vassals and serfs -- It's a Medieval term for the Medieval relationship between a vassal or master and a serf or slave/peasant. The term is really fief -- fiefdom)

[cynzke]

30. Koch Brothers Freedom!

Take us back to a period in US history before right to unionize, before employees rights, workplace regulations, before OSHA and EPA regulations. That's Koch brothers idea of freedom!

[lovuian]

24. threatening the poor and sick Don't you love it

that is the Republican way ...and then kiss the corporations butt and give them a tax right off

[SoapBox]

25. Nice...now Gov. Hosni, you are threatening the OLD and INFIRM!

...wow.

What a real gem you are. AND, fully supported by
the RushThugs, T.HaterBaggers and The KKKoch Brothers.

Police State, we have arrived.

[FeelingBlue]

26. At what point

do we withdraw from the corporate world the best we can, interact at a very local level with the people we know, creating our own separate economy? Is that even possible in this day and age??

[Iliyah]

28. Ya know

corporate media will fan the flames on this uttery untrue piece of shit. These people call themselves Christians. I beg to differ, they are the DEVIL.

[Oak2004]

46. For some people it may be possible, but for most, no

The rich own nearly all the resources. There's not enough raw materials and capital to buy raw materials left over to make an economy independent of predatory global capitalism.

[soupkitchen]

27. Or: I'll compromise over your parent's dead bodies

[pansypoo53219]

29. can you say

blackmail? nice.

[MaeScott]

31. Make him do it. Make him do it. Don't give in. nt

[aquart]

33. Where are the Nat'l Guard he was going to call?

Call the asshole's bluff.

[blackspade]

32. Gotta love that Scott 'Gaddafi' Walker!

Walker sounds crazier and more vindictive every day!
Kind of like a curtain north African dictator!

[Downwinder]

34. Typical Rep. bully tactics. Cut the kindergartens and the nursing homes,

hit the people who can't fight back.

[KT2000]

35. the worst kind of bully -

going after the elderly and disabled like this. What a filthy human being.

[DeSwiss]

36. K&R

Well I'm certain that at least half of the nursing homes in Wisconsin will get their state money on-time.

- The http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?cat=8⊂=97&rgn=51">privately owned ones.

[cpompilo]

37. Hosni Walker puts the dic(k) in Dictator!

How callous and disgusting he is. What's next on his nasty play list?

[mvd]

38. This guy makes Christie look tame

How did that tyrant thug get elected? He has to be recalled when the year requirement is up.

[kickysnana]

39. They are already paid a year behind, this is a PR stunt. n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

40. Scott-Muammar el-Qaddafi -Walker

[Poll_Blind]

41. One-man Republican Death Panel. Spread da woid!

PB

[defendandprotect]

42. ... but he's not recinding the $100 million+ tax cuts for the rich????

[aquart]

48. Save the Grandmothers! Tax the Rich!!!

[NuttyFluffers]

43. oh wow, now holding the elderly, sick, and dying hostage. how "moral" he is...

well, might as well shed all his masks and reveal the monster he truly is. akin to a terrorist, he likes to hold hostages.

and funny, doesn't America have a standard where we don't negotiate with terrorists?

things that make you go 'hmm.'

[Vinca]

45. The Walker Death Panel.

If you don't give up your collective bargaining rights, we'll take out Grandma.