Medicaid promise stalled amid budget battle

Gov. Tony Evers promised on his campaign website to "take immediate action" to accept federal Medicaid expansion if elected.

On his first full day in office, Evers signed an executive order calling on the state Department of Health Services to create a plan to "ensure that more Wisconsinites have access to affordable, quality health care, while saving Wisconsin taxpayer dollars, by expanding Medicaid eligibility" in Wisconsin.

Evers then built his budget around accepting Affordable Care Act funding, which would include the Medicaid expansion. But the Legislature's Republican-run budget committee has stripped that out of the budget, leaving the way forward unclear for this campaign promise.

The Evers-O-Meter rates results, not intent, so we rate this promise Stalled.