What did Scott Walker and the Republican state legislature
think would happen when they cut payment rates to providers? They must have
known, and perhaps desired this outcome, as a way of proving how bad “government
run health care” is.
This is a major problem for Badgercare too, because United
Health Care was perhaps the best and biggest provider:
jsonline: After seeing the state cut payment rates in 2011 and then again this year, UnitedHealthcare has opted to end its contract with the state to oversee care for 174,000 people insured through the BadgerCare Plus program in southeastern Wisconsin. UnitedHealthcare will end its contract on Oct. 31.
The health insurer is the largest of the four managed care organizations that won contracts in 2010 from the Department of Health Services for six counties in southeastern Wisconsin.
UnitedHealthcare's decision raises the question of whether the state has cut payment rates too much.
Under the Obama health care plan, which was enacted by Congress as law,
ReplyDeletestates are supposed to form exchanges on a timetable, which Walker is refusing to do. The exchanges were made so providers could compete against other providers, driving down health care costs through competition.
Republicans now don't like this, wanting to repeal the Obama reform.
Walker is breaking the law by refusing to put together exchanges on time.
Looks like United Health Care is weaseling out of Badgercare because of Scott Walker, too.