2007-09 Wisconsin State Budget

• Statement from WHA President Steve Brenton RE: Hospital Tax and Payment Plan: "WHA removes its opposition to the hospital tax." 10/4/07

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• 5/30/08:Assembly Falls Short in Budget Veto Override Attempts
  
• 5/23/08:Governor Uses Veto Pen to Modify Budget Repair Bill
  
• 5/16/08:Legislature Narrowly Passes Budget Repair Bill, Governor Plans Vetoes
  
• 10-26-07:State Budget Passes
  
• 10-26-07:Medical Society to File Lawsuit to Protect the IPFCF
  
• 10-26-07:President's Column: WHA Statement Regarding Budget Compromise
  
• 10-19-07:Still No State Budget
  
• 10-19-07:Full Plate of Issues Discussed at WHA Board Meeting this Week
  
• 10-19-07:Governor Doyle Meets with Hospital Leaders in Milwaukee and Menasha
  
• 10-19-07:President's Column: The Time Has Come to Finish the Wisconsin Budget
  
• 10-12-07:Republicans Poised to Reject Hospital Plan and Approve IPFCF Transfer
  
• 10-12-07:President's GMC Endorses State Hospital Tax Plan
  
• 10-12-07:President's Column: Letter to Wisconsin Legislature
  
• 10-5-07:WHA Lifts Opposition to Hospital Tax
  
• 9-28-07:Budget Negotiations Continue, No Deals on Health Care
  
• 8-31-07: DOA Wants Plan to Cut Medicaid if no Budget Passed
• Memo from Secretary DOA Michael Morgan: Financial Actions Necessitated by Legislature's Inaction of State Budget
  
• Memo from Legislative Fiscal Bureau to Rep. Huebsch: Medical Assistance Benefits Funding
• 7-27-07: Budget Conference Committee Begins Deliberations
• 7-13-07: Assembly Passes Its Version of State Budget
• 7-6-07: State Budget Advances in Senate; Assembly Continues to Craft Alternatives
• 7-6-07: Senate Democrats Include Massive Health Plan in State Budget
• 7-6-07: President's Column: Senate Democrats Health Plan
• 4-6-07: Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance Dissects State Budget
• 4-6-07: Joint Finance Hears More Opposition to Hospital Tax
• 4-6-07: President's Column--Hospital "Profitability"
• 4-6-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Boscobel Hospital Hosts Rep. Garthwaite to Discuss Hospital Tax
• 2-26-07: WHA Board Unanimously Opposes Hospital Tax
• 2-16-07: President's Message: Myth vs. Fact - Hospital Tax
• 2/9/07 Governor Considers Hospital Tax: Hospital CEOs Voice Concern
• 2/9/07 President's Column: Hospital Tax to Bankroll Medicaid Deficit and Health Care Coverage Expansion?
• 1/5/07 Doyle Targets Health Care in Inaugural Address