[Lekooks] Call to Action: BadgerCare Legislative Session

[Gerald Flakas]

Done!


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Subject: [Lekooks] Call to Action: BadgerCare Legislative Session

For Your Consideration... Jim

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From: "David Liners" <office at wisdomwisconsin.org>
To: gymbeau at netzero.com
Subject: Call to Action: BadgerCare Legislative Session
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 06:00:47 -0400

Please make calls today!
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Following the Joint Finance Committee's actions to remove BadgerCare expansion from the proposed budget, Governor Evers has called for a special legislative session on Tuesday, May 25 to keep this crucial conversation going.

Please make phone calls as soon as possible!

1. Call your state representatives:  Ask that they genuinely participate in the special session Tuesday. Find them here. General phone number: 800-362-9472

2. Call Speaker Robin Vos, 888-534-0063: Ask him to participate in the special session and not allow the Assembly to adjourn without meaningful consideration of the issue.

A bipartisan solution would expand health care access, support our economic recovery, and save more than a billion in state tax dollars while caring for those in need in Wisconsin. Badger Care is not welfare.

More than half of the 91,000 Wisconsinites who would benefit are currently uninsured, and many with coverage are shouldering significant financial burdens to access treatment through private plans. BadgerCare expansion would help address our state’s deep racial inequities in health coverage and health outcomes. It could also help address the criminalization of mental health: people with severe and persistent mental health issues need treatment, not prison. 

In addition to significantly improving access to health care, expanding BadgerCare presents Wisconsin with an opportunity to save $1.6 billion over the next two years. The Governor’s proposal to invest in many projects in both urban and rural communities, behavioral health, broadband, and Black maternal and child health, illustrates the breadth of ways all Wisconsinites could benefit from such profound state savings.

Please make your phone calls as soon as possible!

Thanks.


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