The results of the recall effort in Wisconsin ended up a mixed bag. Scooter continues to enjoy the Cadillac health care and public housing that he railed against for the last 16 months, but Democrats now have a majority in the senate. That’s good, right? Yes and no.
The overt douchbaggery (making janitors and nurses aids making $12/hour pay significantly more for benefits, eliminating public sector unions, eliminating state tax credits for the working poor and elderly, and loading what used to be positions filled with competent, professional, civil servants with hand picked political hacks) is over. The overt tax giveaways to corporations has already happened. Now what we will see is going to be more subtle. Changes in ’policy’. And there's little the senate can do about this.
This headline appeared yesterday Feds deny state's request to opt out of insurance rate change
The state "tried and failed to make it easier for health insurance companies to make double digit rate increases without public scrutiny," Robert Kraig, executive director of the watchdog group Citizen Action of Wisconsin, said in a statement.
Because insurance companies are doing so bad in this economy.
Stay tuned, I’m sure there’s more to come
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