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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWI cancer treatment bill PASSES state senate 30-2...on to the Assembly
Just to keep the story straight, the Fitzgerald's made their play as told in Pic of the Moment...and FAILED
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/stalled-cancer-bill-now-appears-headed-for-a-senate-vote-b99228036z1-250789571.html
Madison The state Senate overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to help curb costs for cancer patients taking chemotherapy pills and another vote was scheduled for Thursday in the Assembly, where Republicans could still make changes that could kill the measure.
GOP Gov. Scott Walker hadn't taken a firm position on the measure by late Tuesday, though his spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick, said Walker would likely be "inclined" to sign it if the Assembly backs the measure by as wide a margin as the Senate did.
Walker's Democratic opponent, Mary Burke, supports the bill.
The proposal approved 30-2 by the Senate would require health plans to provide the same coverage for expensive chemotherapy drugs taken as pills at home as they do for the expensive chemotherapy administered through IVs at hospitals or clinics.
"Oral chemo is the wave of the future," said Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), a breast cancer survivor and lead sponsor of the measure in her house. "In a big way today we're bringing our statutes up to speed of the technology of this drug."
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djean111
(14,255 posts)probably pisses him off that whatever he does now is under a microscope and reported on nationally.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)that would make reconciliation and a trip to Walker's desk impossible.
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)sounds like they will amend
no time left for a compromise bill
session expires
tons of republicans can show a yes vote on a bill that will not go anywhere
window dressing
insurance companies won--the people of wisconsin lost
the bastard republicans have their asses covered
death panels rule
business as usual in the badger state
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)But, at the same time, the bill has had bipartisan and popular support.
Cancer comes into the lives of most families. So far, what's been demonstrated is loopholes in health insurance that use technicalities about the form of delivery of a chemotherapy (IV drip administered in hospital covered vs oral meds taken at home not covered) to leave patients with the bill aren't at all popular, even among teahadists.