Shame on Jim Doyle…
Shame on him for caving in and allowing mandatory health insurance coverage for autism treatment to be cut from the budget “compromise” reached late yesterday. It’s really a sad day when politicians are so readily willing to make treatment for autistic kids a political issue, and it’s a sad day when Democrats are so quick to give up on the issue just so they can say they got a budget deal done.
In a multi-billion dollar state budget, mandating insurance companies provide coverage for autism treatment would have cost 1.3 million dollars, and I can’t help but wonder if that’s money that couldn’t have been cut from somewhere else.
I’m actually disappointed I had faith in Governor Doyle and all his talk about helping autistic kids.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:03 pm
How can you blame Doyle when it was the Assembly Republicans who opposed covering autism treatments? You’re blame is completely missplaced!
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Kennedy, the AssGOP may have opposed covering autism treatments, but the fact is, Governor Doyle could have fought to keep it in the budget. I’m sure there’s no shortage of pork written into the budget, and I think it’s a shame he chose pork over something that would really benefit so many families here in Wisconsin.