Health Care
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF OFFENSE
With almost unanimous bipartisan support, the U.S. Congress now spends nearly a trillion dollars a year – repeat that – a trillion dollars a year, on the Department of Defense. If one includes the Department of Homeland Security and the care of disabled veterans, it is actually more than a trillion. This represents the lion’s portion of the U.S. discretionary budget.
What this “defense” budget means in real terms is that all of the physical resources, all of the knowledge, all of the science and engineering, all of the development, all of the jobs, that ...
Healthy Climate WI Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 12, 2023
Media Contact:
Laura Lane
Healthy Climate Wisconsin
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Doctors and Nurses Join Sierra Club Wisconsin and 350 Wisconsin in Urging the Public Service Commission to Reject Madison Gas and Electric and Alliant Energy's Net Metering and Rate Increase Proposals
Doctors, nurses, and health professionals from Healthy Climate Wisconsin (HCW) are calling on the Public Service Commission (PSC) to reject Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and Alliant Energy's new net metering proposals, which ...
Commonwealth Spirituality
Here in northern Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, August 15, 2023, the Lincoln County Board of Supervisors defeated, by a vote of 13-9, a resolution calling for a county-wide referendum on the funding of the county-owned nursing home, Pine Crest. Over one hundred people—many of them elderly, some in wheelchairs—were in attendance in the big room where supervisors meet. Over half-a-dozen citizens spoke, all in favor of the resolution, including one man who pointed out that a ten-year $8 per month price tag (the property tax increase) offered an astonishingly inexpensive ...
What You Need to Know About Medicare Advantage Plans
Jim Newton, AFT-W 4848 Retiree and POWRS
Summary of a Jim’s Presentation of May 18, 2023
Wisconsin Grassroots Festival - Mazomanie, Wisconsin
When you truly want to learn how well a program is working, you do not go to politicians, investors, or administrators. You go to the workers on the front lines who provide the services of the program. For healthcare it means going to the medical professionals. Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) has been around since the 1980s and has over 25,000 members. You are urged to go to their websites, pnhp.org and ...
JUST MONEY ONE
We are once again watching the complete ignorance – and yes, it is ignorance – of our legislators arguing over the national “debt Ceiling.” Forgive the harsh words, but this misguided foolishness hurts people. It hurts the nation. Every time we witness this self-destructive nonsense, one cannot help but wonder - - -
Why don’t Americans ask some obvious questions? How can there even be a national debt? The Federal Government is the Constitutionally authorized creator and supplier of the nation’s money. Who are we borrowing our own money from, and why are we ...
Badgercare Expansion
Citizen Action Wisconsin continued its statewide tour supporting Badgercare expansion with a stop in Wausau on Thursday, May 11th. I for one am a proud member and I encourage you to join in the fight when it comes to issues that matter most to the citizens of this state.
“The unaffordability of health care and lack of access to it is a huge public concern,” said Citizen Action Executive Director Robert Kraig. “People are skipping the medical care that they need because they can’t afford it.” Many people from Marathon and Lincoln Counties spoke up in ...
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 ...
Take Action on Wisconsin Senate Bill 121/ Assembly Bill 117
Ask your state legislators to support breast cancer screening and diagnostics legislation
SB 121 was introduced in the Senate on March 8, 2023 by Senator Rachael Cabral-Guevara and Representative Nate Gustafson. AB 117 was introduced in the Assembly on March 24. This important legislation will require insurers to cover – without cost sharing – all essential screening and diagnostic tests for women who have dense breasts or are at high risk due to genetics or strong family history
Our state law requires women to be notified after a mammogram if they ...
Wisconsin Breast Cancer Coalition
URGENT URGENT URGENT
YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED TO HELP PUSH THE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER ACCESS TO CARE ACT OVER THE FINISH LINE
NBCC (National Breast Cancer Coalition) and WBCC (Wisconsin Breast Cancer Coalition) advocates have been working tirelessly to move the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act H.R. 3183 to the floor for a vote before the end of this session. This legislation provides critical health access to women and men with metastatic breast cancer and not long to live. They should not have to wait two years for Medicare ...
Say No to 1849
Who may I ask are you, a fifty something year old white male, who walks into a polling place with your MAGA hat on, smiling like you own the world, making decisions that impact women. I find myself studying you. Somehow you don’t ‘look’ particularly intelligent enough to make decisions for me or any other woman. You put our futures and the lives of all women at risk with your ignorance. I am angry at your self-righteousness.
I am a mom. I am a mom by choice. I am a mom for choice. I firmly center my belief that women should decide what is best for ourselves, for ...