False Choices

Heh.

First, Senate Democrats offered to drop their universal health care plan if Assembly Republicans go along with tax increases on cigarettes and hospitals, and transfer $175 million from the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund to expand health care coverage.

Republicans, who control the state Assembly, rejected the offer. But Republicans called it a “huge breakthrough” for Democrats to concede that their $15.2 billion Healthy Wisconsin plan would not be part of the final 2007-‘09 budget.

Healthy Wisconsin isn’t going anywhere and everyone knows it.  It’s not worth a bargaining chip.