Click to send a letter to legislators to roll back the cuts to BadgerCare
Feb 16 – Well over 100 concerned citizens gathered outside of Aurora Sinai hospital to call on Governor Scott Walker, head of the Department of Health Services, Dennis Smith, and the Wisconsin Legislature to roll back the upcoming cuts to BadgerCare. Under Governor Walker’s biennial budget, the DHS now has the sole authority to make sweeping cuts and changes to Medicaid and BadgerCare. Walker and Smith have used their new authority to propose $554 million in cuts to BadgerCare. The new cuts would negatively affect 263,000 BadgerCare recipients by reducing their benefits and by increasing co-pays. More shockingly, the cuts will cause up to 64,000 people – almost half of which are children – to lose their coverage entirely.
But why?
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