Attend an upcoming "Hands Off Medicaid" Town Hall.

May 9th, 4pm in Adams, WI
May 10th, 10am in Green Lake, WI
May 10th, 2pm in Wautoma, WI

Each will include a brief presentation from Citizen Action of Wisconsin's health policy expert, comments from local leaders, testimony from directly-affected community members, and an open forum for questions and further testimony

If you live in Wisconsin and are interested in helping organize a Medicaid town hall in your community, contact: Timothy.Faust@citizenactionwi.org

Wisconsin’s Medicaid program covers 1.2 million people. It contains BadgerCare, a health insurance program for low-income residents; FamilyCare and IRIS, which fund nursing home care and home healthcare services for seniors and people with disabilities; Birth to 3, which provides comprehensive services for infants with developmental disabilities, and several other programs serving vulnerable populations who would otherwise be excluded from healthcare infrastructure. It is also the largest payer of mental health services, one of the primary funders for substance use disorder rehabilitation, and a budgetary lifeline for hospitals and physicians serving rural and low-income patients.

In February, both chambers of Congress passed a budget resolution calling $4.5 trillion in tax breaks over the next decade, including a $2 trillion reduction in government spending. The Energy & Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, was apportioned $880 billion of these cuts. Though Medicaid was not explicitly named in the resolution, the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan government agency, concludes that this goal is unattainable without severe cuts to Medicaid.