Panel OKs tax hikes on hospitals and cigarettes…To help pay Medicaid, health costs.
"Doyle is counting on the money generated from the cigarette tax, the 0.8 percent tax on hospital revenues and a $175 million transfer from the patients' compensation fund to pay for Medicaid and other health care expenses."
"The committee also approved Doyle's proposals to offer health insurance to all children in the state, regardless of family income, and an expansion of the BadgerCare health care program.
We are going to pay and pay and pay.