Hey folks,
Welcome back to Week 2 of our Badger Bounceback Live Series. For the next seven days, it’s officially Healthcare Week!
The Governor’s budget addresses four crucial healthcare challenges, so let’s take a minute to talk about each one.
Don’t have time to make it to the seventh inning stretch? No problem! Here’s a quick graphic with all our Need to Know information for this week (don’t forget to share on Facebook and retweet on Twitter!), but you can scroll on for some more statistics on each proposal.
FIRST BASE: Healthcare affordability and access, and expanding Medicaid/BadgerCare
- Provide coverage to tens of thousands of uninsured Wisconsinites and save more than $1.6 billion in state tax dollars.
- Allocate over $30 million to promote community-based health equity initiatives.
- Transition Wisconsin from federal to state-based insurance marketplace to increase flexibility and improve enrollment efforts.
- Create a premium assistance program to help make healthcare more affordable and authorize the Department of Health Services.
SECOND BASE: Mental and behavioral health
- Provides more than $40 million to increase access to critical mental health services.
- Invests more than $50 million in school and community-based mental health programming and supports for school-aged children.
- Proposes $25 million in targeted investments to support Wisconsinites with substance use disorders.
- Calls for $25 million to boost front-end preventative services, support regional crisis centers, and bolster alternatives to emergency detention, like rapid response mental health teams.
THIRD BASE: Prescription drug affordability
- Creation of the Office of Prescription Drug Affordability to provide oversight over the pharmaceutical supply chain.
- Establishes a $50 copay cap on insulin to ensure insulin is affordable.
- Provide $4 million in increased funding for free and charitable clinics and community health center grants.
HOME RUN: Caregiving and long-term care
- Invests more than $600 million in Wisconsin’s long-term care infrastructure, the direct care workforce, and family caregivers.
- Proposes $240 million in Wisconsin’s nursing homes.
- Provides an infusion of more than $150 million in targeted support for Wisconsin’s direct care workforce via Medicaid-funded long-term care programming.
- Establish a $500 caregiver tax credit to cover family caregiving expenses.
If you’re interested in hearing some more about these proposals, or have feedback for the Governor and his team, don’t forget to RSVP for this week’s Live Session, happening on Thursday, March 25th at 6pm CT.
Thanks for joining us this week, and we’ll be back in touch next week with some more great proposals from Governor Ever’s 2021-23 state budget.
Thanks,
WisDems
|
|
|
Our party is committed to advancing progressive values and ensuring Democratic victories up and down the ballot. Will you help us organize with voters year-round? We can't take anything for granted.
|
This email was sent to you because the WisDems need your help to keep Wisconsin blue. But, if you want to hear from us less, you can click here to unsubscribe. to be removed from our list.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin
PO Box 1686
Madison, WI 53701
United States
| DONATE |
| PAID FOR BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN, BEN WIKLER, CHAIR
|
|
|
|
|
|
