Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) has
said it before and is now reiterating the fact: 185,000 Wisconsinites potentially losing health insurance is not his problem, and he won't do a damned thing about it. That's if the Supreme Court decides with the plaintiffs in the
King v. Burwell case that federal subsidies shouldn't be going to people who live in states using the federal health insurance exchanges under Obamacare. One straightforward fix for all those people would be for the states to establish their own exchanges. It's not going to happen in Wisconsin,
says Walker, again.
"We're going to push back," the likely Republican presidential candidate said of President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
"This president of the United States—they've got to come up with a solution....They're going to try to put the pressure on us but we need to put the pressure right back on them."
The White House has
already ruled out any kind of fix that the administration can do unilaterally. A federal fix would have to involve Congress, and the chances of this Republican Congress working with President Obama to do something are nonexistent. The most effective course for a governor to take in this event would be to create an exchange. But Walker maintains that it's just not his problem. No, it will be the problem for the 185,000 Wisconsinites who will lose their insurance. And
that will be Walker's problem.