{"id":15408,"date":"2025-02-20T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:59:24","slug":"evers-budget-promises-higher-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15408","title":{"rendered":"Evers Budget Promises Higher Health Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/evers-budget-promises-higher-health-care-costs\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/evers-budget-promises-higher-health-care-costs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 Following Governor Evers\u2019 budget address, Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce\u2019s Associate Vice President of Government Relations &amp; Senior Political Advisor Rachel Ver Velde released the following statement regarding the budget\u2019s impact on health care costs:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs Wisconsin faces the fourth highest hospital costs in the country, making us an outlier in the Midwest, employers and consumers are increasingly concerned about affordability. Unfortunately, Governor Evers\u2019 proposed budget removes key tools that help employers contain costs. His plan inserts costly, top-down government mandates for coverage, limits the ability of payers to prevent unnecessary or harmful care, and weakens health care consumerism. These changes will drive costs even higher, making Wisconsin\u2019s already expensive health care system even more unaffordable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wisconsin employers support meaningful reforms that promote pricing transparency and empower patients to make informed choices \u2013 without government mandates that increase costs. WMC urges lawmakers to reject these proposals and collaborate with employers on real solutions to control health care costs and improve affordability for businesses and employees.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/evers-budget-promises-higher-health-care-costs\/\">Evers Budget Promises Higher Health Care Costs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/evers-budget-promises-higher-health-care-costs\/ MADISON \u2013 Following Governor Evers\u2019 budget address, Wisconsin Manufacturers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}