claim: "the alternative" to higher state worker pension and health care payments "is to look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to 200,000 children who would be bumped off medicaid-related programs."
author: scott walker
evidence_1: can you name the two midwestern states where the 2012 election battle may be  fought the ... senatorial elections raise the stakes even higher for wisconsin and  ohio. .... he wanted state employees to pay more for their health care and  pensions. ... and as many as 200,000 children bumped off medicaid-related  programs.
evidence_2: feb 17, 2011 ... if the measure passes, public employee unions would be left only with ... force  state employees to pay more toward pensions and health care by ... see related  rulings ... politifact wisconsin has been putting statements related to the ... of the  budget alternatives was to drop 200,000 kids from medicaid was ...
evidence_3: mar 3, 2011 ... democrats view the real intent as union-busting and say the gop move unfairly  punishes workers for recession-related woes. ... a state afl-cio ad charged that  walker's budget-repair bill would ... the pay story ... to state employee health and  pension changes is bumping 200,000 children out of medicaid.
evidence_4: feb 20, 2011 ... protesters slept on the capitol floor and some republican state legislators, ... i  have to be ready at a moment's notice to go back to madison to do the people's  work. .... changes] is to look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to  200,000 children who would be bumped off medicaid-related programs.
evidence_5: apr 12, 2012 ... "the alternative" to higher state worker pension and health care payments "is to  look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to 200,000 children who would  be bumped off medicaid-related programs." ... "i asked the unions to pay into their  own health care insurance ... and they said i was being ...