Gov. Walker's Dept. of Health Services Secretary is from the Heritage Foundation and Wants to Destroy Medicaid - Please Share!

I posted about this guy, Dennis Smith, back in January (link) but that was a month before the Budget Repair Bill came out. There was no press on it at the time, and maybe people thought it was a pretty normal appointment. It's not! They are going to be able to drop 70,000 people from Medicaid or BadgerCare and be able to go around the legislature in changing Medicaid rules.  This is a major reason to immediately call or write your state representatives and the governor and tell them that SB-11, the Budget Repair Bill, is seriously flawed and needs to be given a chance to receive more input from the public before it is signed.

Here's where you can find your legislators' email and phone contact information: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx

Read more about Dennis Smith and what the coming changes may mean for Wisconsin here: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2011/February/25/Dennis-Smith-Wisconsin-Medicaid-Cuts.aspx