2011-03-01

2011-03-01 11:45 am

Gov. Walker's "one-man death panel"

In his infamous Wisconsin “budget repair bill,” Walker has decreed that the state Secretary of Health and Human Services is empowered “to override state Medicaid laws as [he] sees fit and institute sweeping changes,” including reducing benefits and limiting eligibility. The specifics of his bureaucratically couched proposals have led milwaukeecountyfirst.com to label him “the one-man death panel.”