Greetings from All of Us
For about six months we have been seriously promoting universal health insurance for Wisconsin, using the model called provide and pay and following a strategy of local passage of the plan. It would be passed first in Madison, then its region - and then other cities and their regions throughout Wisconsin.
We've met with various politicians, political parties, business leaders, businesses, union leaders, unions, insurance companies, state bureaucrats, local bureaucrats, community health organizations, neighborhood organizations, church groups, etc. The results of these interactions have been almost uniformly positive.
We've done a survey of three major streets in Madison with businesses favoring our proposal by a ratio of over 7 to 1. <more...>
Affordable Healthcare - A Local Solution
by Judy Reed
Madison’s Mayor Dave Cieslewicz recently said that important initiatives in this country will only happen if they begin locally, and the 150 volunteers in Wisconsin Health Care for All Inc. (WHCFA) couldn’t agree more. WHCFA members have found a solution to America’s health care crisis. They’ve even figured out how to implement universal health care now, without having to spend years negotiating with state lawmakers. <more...>
Health insurance plight of owners and workers in small businesses
by Pamela Alsum
About 10% of us in Wisconsin are at risk for the problems of being health care uninsured. But that is only part of the health care crisis. Thanks to some hardworking colleagues who talked with small businesses in Madison about this issue, we have been told many health insurance anecdotes on the plight of business owners. <more...>
Do we want to work towards a healthy community?
by Pamela Alsum
Communities do care about those left out, and some have worked out ways to extend existing health programs, especially for children, but for other inadequately insured people as well. A study of some of these efforts, published in the June 29, 2005 National Health Policy Forum, describes how about half of California counties have or are planning programs based on SCHIP (State Children's Health Ins. Program) or Medicaid models; counties in Michigan, Indiana, and North Carolina have also devised creative plans to pay for and structure care for some if not all uninsured individuals. <more...>