From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore and Democratic congressional candidate Mitchell Berman took aim at U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil today for the GOP reconciliation package that cut federal healthcare spending.
Berman, an emergency room nurse from Raymond who is challenging Steil for his 1st CD seat, said his facility no longer has an MRI technician available 24/7.
“If you show up to our emergency department and you’re having signs of a stroke, we have a medication we can give you to reverse those symptoms, but we have to have an MRI,” Berman said during a virtual presser hosted by Protect our Care.
“So now, we have to stabilize you, put you in an ambulance, and send you to another facility. And that delay in care – half an hour, 40 minutes, based on traffic – could be the difference between you ever walking or talking again or surviving.”
He said that position being cut was part of broader cost-cutting as hospitals anticipate an increased number of uninsured and underinsured patients under healthcare cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Moore, D-Milwaukee, criticized Steil for cutting others’ healthcare when he “has some of the best healthcare in the country as a member of Congress.”
She cited a state Department of Health Services estimate from June that projected some 63,000 BadgerCare recipients could lose coverage beginning Jan. 1.
That’s because those individuals lack documentation showing they’re complying with new federal work requirements that go into effect next year under the OBBBA.
“These are not just numbers on a spreadsheet. These are our Wisconsin families. These are parents and workers, caregivers, people who need access to a doctor before a health problem becomes a crisis,” Moore said. “And they certainly are not people who are scamming the system.”
When asked for comment on their remarks, Steil said the state began getting an additional $1 billion annually in “record” federal healthcare funding starting in July 2025, following the passage of the reconciliation bill, the state budget and a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule he supported.
He argued the bill “strengthened important programs” for recipients they were meant for, including pregnant women, children and people with disabilities.
“After its passage, Wisconsin receives more federal health care funding than it has ever received,” Steil wrote in an email. “Individuals spreading misinformation about this bill’s effects in Wisconsin are either deliberately lying or misinformed. What they are really saying is that they don’t support work requirements for able-bodied childless adults of 20 hours per week.”
— SSM Health has opened a new care location in Verona it says will expand access to various services for locals, ranging from primary care and orthopedics to imaging and more.
The new 40,000-square-foot Verona Outpatient Center is located on a 100-acre site in the city, and it was designed by architecture firm Kahler Slater. Other partners in the project include JP Cullen, IMEG and GRAEF.
It will offer eye care, women’s health services, dermatology, nutrition counseling, diabetes education, lab services and a retail space for optical care. The clinic has an integrated care team model, an approach that combines diagnosis, treatment and disease management, along with other supportive services.
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