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Wisconsin
Citizen Action
believes we need to fundamentally change our health care system
to one which provides quality, affordable health care for all.
Guaranteeing health coverage to everyone eliminates the need for
insurance companies and their administrative and marketing costs
which add no value to our health care system. If we replace
insurance companies with a system of public financing that uses
standardized coverage and claims procedures, we can all choose
our own doctors and hospitals and receive comprehensive health
care for less money than it costs us now.
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Our Health Care
System Has Failed Us: Most of Us are One Paycheck Away from
Being Uninsured and the Rest of Us are One Emergency Away from
Financial Ruin |
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See the the Action Plan For
Affordable Health Care |
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Fair Share Health
Care Campaign
Tens of Thousands of Hard-Working Wisconsin Residents are Left
Without Health Coverage. Wal-Mart and other large corporations
such as Aurora, Walgreens and McDonalds are failing to provide
quality affordable health coverage to their employees, leaving
many thousands of hard-working Wisconsin residents without
health coverage. • Wal-Mart and Others are Abusing our Medicaid
and Badgercare Programs. Left without health coverage, those
employees who qualify are forced onto public health programs
like Badgercare, and thus our precious public health care
program dollars end up being used to subsidize the profits of
big business! These programs were never intended to be used as a
subsidy for big, greedy corporations. This is exactly the wrong
direction for our health care system.
Open Fair Share Health Care
Fact Sheet
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ROLLING
BACK BENEFITS, ROLLING FORWARD COSTS -
See the
study
the shows how large, successful companies
are shirking their health care responsibility at Wisconsin's
expense |
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New Numbers Reveal
that it Costs Wisconsin Much More Than We Thought:
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Wal-Mart’s profits last year were
$10.3 billion. So, why weren’t they offering affordable health
benefits to their employees?
We recently learned that state
taxpayers are providing at least a $1.8 million annual health
subsidy to Wal-Mart by providing its workers with BadgerCare,
the state Medicaid program that provides health insurance to low
income working families with children. Federal taxpayers provide
a larger subsidy to Wisconsin Wal-Mart workers and their
families.
See Press Release
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Letter to Senator Schultz
and Rep. Gard |
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