Previously, as a result of the now infamous budget-repair bill passed earlier this year in the Badger State, the legislature had taken themselves out of the Medicaid cutting business by turning full responsibility for the same over to the Department of Health Services.

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Then came the union-busting bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that turned the Badger State upside down.

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Rep. Bill Huizenga, a Michigan Republican who represents Ludington, sponsored an amendment last year that would have given the Badger a permanent exemption.

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