http://www.walker.wi.gov/Documents/11.16.12%20Letter%20to%20Secretary%20Sebelius.pdf
Dear Secretary Sebelius:
Please accept this letter as official notification to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Wisconsin will not build a state-based health insurance exchange and will defer to the federal government’s insurance exchange.
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If the state option is chosen; however, Wisconsinites face risk from a federal mandate lacking long-term guaranteed funding. ... operating a state exchange would not provide the flexibility to meet our state’s unique needs or to protect our state’s taxpayers.
TG: It took some arm-twisting by taxpayers to pressure Gov. Walker to make the right decision, but at least he did make the right decision. It opposed his earlier position that if Wisconsin would be in serious danger if it did not accept the exchange. Apparently he was being less than honest when he took that position. He has shown himself to be untrustworthy. We can't count on him to take a stand for what's right unless we force him to do so.
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