Wisconsin Republicans seek compromise on Medicaid expansion
MADISON — Wisconsin Republicans open to a possible compromise with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Medicaid expansion are looking at ways to accept the federal funding while not appearing to cave in on the issue, even as GOP leaders remain steadfastly opposed.
Evers is also publicly refusing to bend from his full expansion proposal, despite its near-certain demise in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Chatter about finding a compromise is giving a thin thread of hope to those who have pushed for years to take the money and use it for a host of health-care initiatives.
“I honestly think we have to take it,” Republican Sen. Luther Olsen, of Ripon, said of the Evers Medicaid expansion proposal. “Whether we do or not, I don’t know. We need to look with an open mind at what it does for the state of Wisconsin.”
Evers ran in support of taking the money that his predecessor, Republican Gov. Scott Walker, steadfastly refused to accept.
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