UNDATED (WSAU-Wheeler News) Wisconsin’s health secretary says the federal government will have to deal with the fallout, if the U-S Supreme Court rules that tax subsidies for Obama-care coverage are unconstitutional. The justices will hear oral arguments today on whether it’s legal to give out subsidies in Wisconsin and almost three dozen other states that use the federal purchasing exchanges.
Members of the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee asked Health Services Secretary Kitty Rhoades yesterday if she had a plan to deal with the matter. Rhoades said it would be Washington’s problem — but she said the state would work with its federal partners, to make sure “they get it fixed right.”
Senate Democrat Jon Erpenbach of Middleton issued a statement claiming that Wisconsin has missed out on $345-million on federal Medicaid funds, by not accepting them to help cover childless adults on Badger-Care. Those people were dropped from the state program almost a year ago, and were told to get coverage from the federal exchanges.
