BROOKFIELD, Wis (WSAU-Wheeler News) Governor Scott Walker says Obama-care is the president’s problem — and he’ll have to solve it if the U-S Supreme Court strikes down a key part of the Affordable Care Act. The justices will decide whether it’s unconstitutional to give tax credits to those who sign-up for Obama-care plans in Wisconsin and three dozen other states that use the federal government’s purchasing exchange.
At a forum in Brookfield yesterday the Republican Walker predicted that the White House would pressure Wisconsin to set up its own exchange if the tax breaks in the federal exchange are shut down. On a taping of the “Insight 2015 program” by WTMJ Radio host Charlie Sykes, Walker told the conservative audience that the president will try to work out some type of deal with the states — and he said the states should stay out of it, and let Obama get out of his own pickle himself.
As Walker put it, “They’re going to try to put the pressure on us, but we need to put the pressure right back on them.”
Walker — who has opposed Obama-care all along — has rejected calls by Democrats to have Wisconsin set up its own exchange.
