Tired old Republican right-wing canard alert.
While figuratively standing in a doctor's office doorway, WI State Assembly GOP Assembly Speaker and self-appointed shadow Wisconsin Governor Robin Vos made this argument against a Medicaid expansion favored by The Real Governor Tony Evers:
Neither Medicaid nor the Wisconsin variant "BadgerCare" are "government-run health care."
Medicaid and BadgerCare indeed provide taxpayer financing to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other privately-operated facilities for eligible recipients.
Services are provided at facilities which are government-regulated and assisted, but not "government-run."
If receiving government funding under government rules makes a facility "government-run," then the Foxconn plant in Vos' district in Mount Pleasant will be a government-run TV screen factory and Vos gets major credit for the government takeover.
So let's cut to the case: By slamming "government-run health care," Vos
is just playing that tired old right-wing card Republicans have shown since demonizing government-assisted health care - - Medicare - - as 'socialized medicine' decades ago.
While figuratively standing in a doctor's office doorway, WI State Assembly GOP Assembly Speaker and self-appointed shadow Wisconsin Governor Robin Vos made this argument against a Medicaid expansion favored by The Real Governor Tony Evers:
"Expanding government-run health care is a non-starter," said Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester.That's nothing but pure righty talking point talk right there, conjuring images of cold, impersonal Soviet-style-state-run facilities operated by nameless, faceless bureaucrats.
Neither Medicaid nor the Wisconsin variant "BadgerCare" are "government-run health care."
Medicaid and BadgerCare indeed provide taxpayer financing to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other privately-operated facilities for eligible recipients.
Services are provided at facilities which are government-regulated and assisted, but not "government-run."
If receiving government funding under government rules makes a facility "government-run," then the Foxconn plant in Vos' district in Mount Pleasant will be a government-run TV screen factory and Vos gets major credit for the government takeover.
So let's cut to the case: By slamming "government-run health care," Vos
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is just playing that tired old right-wing card Republicans have shown since demonizing government-assisted health care - - Medicare - - as 'socialized medicine' decades ago.