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La Crosse state Assembly Rep. Billings on postpartum care, campaign finance, local listening session
Wisconsin state Assembly Rep. Jill Billings in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk to discuss a bipartisan bill on postpartum care that mysteriously didn’t get passed, her hosting two local budget listening sessions and the state of campaign finance, after the $100 million spring WI Supreme Court race.
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We began the show with discussing a bill that passed the state Senate last session 32-1 — that one legislator not getting reelected — and never getting to a vote in the state Assembly, because Speaker Robin Vos decided not to do so.
That bill, which is getting another vote Tuesday in the state Senate, would extend Medicaid coverage to new moms from 60 days to 12 months — something all but 49 states already have. The bill has 21 co-sponsors in the state Senate and 66 in the Assembly.
After that, we discussed the spring election and what can be done about campaign finance reform, before ending on the two budget listening sessions Billing and Wisconsin state Sen. Brad Pfaff (D-Onalaska) held in Sparta and La Crosse this month. Those listening sessions come, as the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee holds four statewide hearings, but none of which are close to La Crosse. The nearest hearing is April 28 in Wausau. The other is April 29 in Hayward.
walden
April 21, 2025 at 8:02 pm
How did babies ever survive without Democrats?
Time for men to “man up” and take care of their own children. Good grief.
GET A JOB
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 am
You must feel real high and mighty on your podium standing overtop postpartum women not getting medical care. I feel bad for any females in your life
Libertarian guy
April 22, 2025 at 3:54 pm
Medicaid is going broke. Medicaid pays providers below market rates causing providers to lose money and/or to shift their costs to people who have insurance or self-pay. Democrats are always focused on expanding or extending Medicaid to accommodate even more people, which exacerbates the above 2 problems. medicaid is the best “insurance“ around. Because recipients pay no premium, no deductible, extremely low or no co-pay, and they are not even held responsible with a fee when they failed to show for an appointment. This is a 2 tier health system With adverse consequences, if larger and larger numbers are added to the Medicaid roles and or if existing Medicaid benefits are extended for a longer time period. Walden is not high and mighty. He is encouraging personal responsibility in this case and in general he points out facts Democrats fail to recognize.
Kevin
April 23, 2025 at 8:33 am
I have to add I to Waldens’s comment. There used to be two parent households, as God intended, each parent providing complementary skill sets to care for children.
At some point the government, assisted by the chamber of commerce decided to tap into the female labor market. Women, drunk on the independence discovered during WW2 abandoned the family in favor of being shackled to work place vs family.
The government assisted with easy to obtain abortion laws, men being what men are, rejoiced and said, now I can have my cake and eat it too.
This, death spiral of the family has continued, tightened and sped up with the advent of same sex marriage and trans ideology. The government now usurping the role of the parent in almost all aspects of culture.
Boys no longer are raised to be providers. One of the greatest providers, the Christian male is now near extinct. Replaced by the government where, women despite their loud calls for independence, now rely on government subsidized family care. Boys, never being in the presence of a man who provides or is taught that a provider is somehow bad for society, are more than happy to step away from responsibility and accountability.
One ring to rule them, and in the darkness bind them.