Medicaid Info Resources

• National Day of Action- Wednesday, July 12 (7-10-17)
• June 28-Medicaid Informational Session (6-30-17)
  • PowerPoint
  • Medicaid Program Grid
  • Handouts
• Our countdown ends today with fact #1. Resources (6-29-17)
  

  If you would like more information about this fact, you can use these resources:
   The Arc Wisconsin: Wisconsin is at Risk: Responding to Federal Medicaid Cuts
  Wisconsin Hospital Association: U.S. Senate health care bill falls short.

  The Milwaukee Business Journal: WMC, MMAC join hospitals in calling for Sen. Ron Johnson to intervene on AHCA

• Our countdown continues today with fact #2.
  Resources (6-28-17)

If you would like more information about this fact, you can use these resources:

The Arc Wisconsin: Wisconsin Ideas for Sustaining Medicaid with Common Sense Reforms

Consumer Reports: Is There a Cure for High Drug Prices?Three in 10 Americans (about 32 million people) were hit with price hikes within the past 12 months

• Today is Day #3 in the Final Countdown to Stop the AHCA and its Cuts to Medicaid. Resources (6-27-17)

If you would like more information about this fact, you can use these resources:
Commonwealth Fund: THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ACT: ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT CONSEQUENCES FOR STATES
 Survival Coalition: Wisconsin’s Direct Care Workforce Crisis Fact Sheet.

• The Final Countdown to Stop the AHCA and its Cuts to Medicaid: Day #4. Resources (6-26-17)
  

  If you would like more information about this fact, you can use these resources:

  NPR: Many Veterans Gained Health Care Through The Affordable Care Act
  Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid’s Role in Behavioral Health. Medicaid funds 25% of all mental health spending and 21% of all addiction spending.
  Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid’s Role in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic. Medicaid and CHIP cover 3 in 10 people with opioid addiction.

   

• Final Countdown to Stop the AHCA Day: #5 Cuts to Medicaid. Resources (6-23-17)
  

  WATCH BPDD Board Member Delores Demonstrate How To Make A Call Over at the BPDD Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/231731545443/videos/10158940501890444/

  If you would like more information about this fact, you can use these resources:

  The Hill: Senator Johnson: I ‘can’t imagine’ voting yes on health bill in a week.

  Wisconsin State Journal Editorial: Slow down and get health care bill right. “The public deserves details and plenty of time for input, too.”

• Final Countdown to Stop the AHCA: Day #6 Devastating cuts to Medicaid mean cuts to Wisconsin programs that children and adults with disabilities need. Resources (6-22-17)
  

   WATCH BPDD Board Member Delores Demonstrate How To Make A Call Over at the BPDD Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/231731545443/videos/10158940501890444/
  Survival Coalition: Medicaid 101.
  Survival Coalition: Myth Busting.
  National Health Law Program: Protect Medicaid Funding: Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities

• It’s the Final Countdown to Stop the AHCA and its Cuts to Medicaid: Resources (6-21-17)
  

  WATCH BPDD Board Member Delores Demonstrate How To Make A Call Over at the BPDD Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/231731545443/videos/10158940501890444/
  Survival Coalition: Busting Myths about Medicaid and the American Health Care Act 
  Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office Analysis of the AHCA
  
  CNBC: This Map Shows How Many States Would have Zero or Few Insurers Selling Health Care Next Year.

• Community Conversation about Changes to Medicaid in Wisconsin (6-15-17)
• Myth Busting Flier (6-13-17)
• Medicaid One Pager Fact Sheet (6-13-17)
• Wisconsin’s Congressional District Map (6-13-17)
• Wisconsin’s Congressional Delegation District Office Information (6-13-17)
• Medicaid Wisconsin Stories Booklet (6-2-17)
• “Am I Impacted By Medicaid?” Survey from (5-20-17)
  Congressional District 1: Speaker Paul Ryan.
  Congressional District 2: Congressman Mark Pocan.
   Congressional District 3: Congressman Ron Kind
   Congressional District 4: Congresswoman Gwen Moore.
   Congressional District 5: Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner
   Congressional District 6: Congressman Glenn Grothman.
   Congressional District 7: Congressman Sean Duffy.
   Congressional District 8: Congressman Mike Gallagher.