Wisconsin's Scott Walker is the hero protecting health care ... who knew?

Daily Kos Staff

Monday October 15, 2018 · 8:56 AM PDT

2018/10/15 · 08:56

WEST BEND, WI - AUGUST 16: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker introduces Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump as he gets ready to speak at a rally on August 16, 2016 in West Bend, Wisconsin. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images) — Here's Scott Walker with his role model.

Oh, here's another shameless Republican who insists that he would never ever endanger someone else's health care, because people he personally loves could get hurt. Because that's what Republicans do: they lie.

My wife is Type 1 diabetic. My mother is a cancer survivor. My brother has a heart condition. Covering pre-existing conditions is personal to me. And itÃ¢ÂÂs the right thing to do. As long as IÃ¢ÂÂm governor, people with pre-existing conditions will always be covered.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) October 15, 2018

Yep, that's Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who is on the verge of seeing his political career finally end (except for the inevitable Fox News contract), thanks to a robust challenge from Democrat Tony Evers.

What Walker is so conveniently leaving out here is that he personally "approved Wisconsin's participation in a multi-state lawsuit to try and overturn the ACA." That's the lawsuit that the Trump administration has joined in on, explicitly calling for protections for pre-existing health conditions to be declared unconstitutional. In fact, "Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has conceded [the suit] would end the law's provisions on pre-existing conditions." But Walker okayed it anyway.

He's trying to pretend that away by hawking a state bill that would supposedly insure people with pre-existing conditions, but which health care experts say can't work without the federal safeguards in the ACA he's trying to overturn. "It's like trying to replace a dam in a river with a couple of rocks," said Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C. of the state bill. "The bad behavior will just kind of go around the barrier that you put up." All of the protections in the ACA—the federal subsidies that make insurance affordable for most people, the essential health benefits that have to be covered, the major medical coverage, the banning of annual and lifetime caps on coverage—all that would be gone and Wisconsin's so-called replacement bill wouldn't save it.

Knowing all that, it's a wonder Walker's entire family hasn't appeared in ads for Evers.

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