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From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— Democrats in the Legislature have announced a “Lowering Costs, Improving Lives” package, including an expansive measure aiming to reduce prescription drug costs.
That bill would implement many recommendations proposed by Gov. Tony Evers’ Task Force on Reducing Prescription Drug Prices, which he formed in 2019. Among the recommendations: eliminating cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs for BadgerCare enrollees, capping insulin costs at $35 per month and creating a prescription drug affordability board. The package also includes measures to provide free school meals for all Wisconsin students.
Co-sponsor Rep. Ryan Spaude, D-Ashwaubenon, at a Capitol press conference with fellow Dems yesterday said Wisconsinites of all ages, including himself, rely on prescription drugs every day.
“It’s an issue that really, truly can affect all of us,” Spaude said. “And no Wisconsinite should be forced to choose between putting food on their table and having the life-saving medication that they need.”
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, in a statement to WisPolitics said: “Democrats’ solution to higher costs is always more government regulation and inflation-inducing government spending.
“Senate Republicans’ top priority is to cut taxes for hardworking Wisconsin families so that they can make a life and a living without having to rely on government handouts,” he added.
The package also includes measures to provide free school meals for all Wisconsin students, and would expand the Homestead Tax Credit, which targets low-income owners and renters.
See more at WisPolitics.
— U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, after meeting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Donald Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary would be “downright dangerous for Wisconsin families.”
Baldwin, who sits on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said she met with Kennedy “because Wisconsinites expect that I give all the incoming President’s nominees a fair shake.”
“Unfortunately, I left the conversation more concerned than when I walked in, and he did nothing to ease my grave concerns about his long list of conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine positions,” Baldwin said. “His previous statements that ‘there is no vaccine that is safe and effective’ or that he is going to fire 600 scientists who are working to find cures to diseases like cancer are not only wrong, but if this guy gets into power, it will be downright dangerous for Wisconsin families.”
Baldwin said Wisconsinites deserve someone who will fight to keep them safe and healthy, “not someone fighting to push vaccine conspiracy theories and stop research on cures to deadly diseases.”
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