Poor People’s Campaign on Health Care

On Wednesday, March 22nd, Wisconsinites from across the state gathered at the capitol building, the people’s house, to bring a message to the members of the Joint Finance Committee.   We called on the JFC to use their power in the state budget decision-making process to finally accept Medicaid/BadgerCare expansion and move towards a healthcare system where everyone is in and nobody is left out. We delivered the petitions you signed from 59 Counties to their offices, shared powerful testimony about how we and our communities are impacted by their decision to deny healthcare to poor and low income people, and invited them to ...