As one who has been “polluting comment threads on blogs,” I oppose WPRI’s position. Healthy Wisconsin would be the best thing that could happen to our state’s businesses and economy, but admittedly, not our insurance businesses that are funding WPRI.
HW would eliminate the 31% of costs that the insurance bureaucracy is draining from health care, so I understand why the industry would hire lobbying organizations to throw cold water wherever they can.
But one need only look at the GM plant closing in Janesville. They are now making more cars in Ontario than in Detroit because, in part, health care there costs just $800 per employee per year versus $6500 in the US.
Where are our heads? Or better, where are our loyalties?
As to Sen. Erpenbach’s loyalties, they seem to be to his constituents. And his efforts on campaign finance reform would also benefit Wisconsin, though WPRI seems to oppose even clean government.
Where are the heads of WPRI leaders? In their wallet?
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