Contact your legislators today at 1-800-362-9472 and tell them to meaningfully participate in the upcoming special session on May 25th.
Following the Joint Finance Committee's actions to remove BadgerCare expansion from the proposed budget, Governor Evers has called for a special legislative session to keep this important conversation going.
Please call your legislator and ask them, regardless of their views on expansion, to engage in the debate and consider what’s at stake for the 91,000 Wisconsinites who would gain access to affordable health coverage. Both sides should come to the table in earnest and work out a bipartisan solution that would expand health care access, support our economic recovery, and save more than a billion in state tax dollars.
More than half of those Wisconsinites are currently uninsured, and many with coverage are shouldering significant financial burdens to access treatment through private plans. BadgerCare expansion will help address our state’s deep racial inequities in health coverage and health outcomes.
In addition to significantly improving health care access, 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 two phone calls as soon as possible!
Contact your elected officials at 800-362-9472 and ask that they genuinely participate in the special session Tuesday.
Also, call Speaker Robin Vos’s office at 888-534-0063 and ask him to participate in the special session and not allow the Assembly to adjourn without meaningfully considering the issue.
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