{"id":3528,"date":"2019-05-08T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:46:07","slug":"medicaid-expansion-call-in-day-wednesday-may-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/medicaid-expansion-call-in-day-wednesday-may-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid Expansion Call-In Day Wednesday May 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">On Thursday, May 9th, the Joint Finance Committee plans to remove Medicaid expansion from the\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">budget. This put many issues for people with disabilities in jeopardy. These are several important items\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">in the budget that may not go forward:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Wage increases for direct care workers in Family Care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Wage increases for personal care workers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Increased reimbursements for dentists, including those that serve people with physical and developmental disabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Funds to Serve the 1000+ children currently waiting to access the children\u2019s long-term services and supports waiver<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Increased funding for mental health and crisis services and supports<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Funding for Lead Exposure and poisoning prevention<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; color: #ff0000;\">Survival Coalition asks you to make four calls. Contact the Co-Chairs of the Joint Finance Committee\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; color: #ff0000;\">and your two legislators.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\"><strong>Senator Alberta Darling<\/strong>, 608-266-5830 and\u00a0<strong>Representative John Nygren<\/strong>, 608-266-2343<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Find your Legislator at\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/[clickthru=legiswisconsingov=legis.wisconsin.gov\/]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Find Members on the Joint Committee on Finance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JointCommitteeOnFinance_Members_2019.pdf\">https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JointCommitteeOnFinance_Members_2019.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; color: #ff0000;\">Ask them to:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Invest in programs and services critical to people with disabilities and older adults by including the\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">Medicaid Expansion in the Budget.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MedicaidChart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3529 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MedicaidChart-226x300.png\" alt=\"Chart of Medicaid Exp Info\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">If you want more information on Medicaid Expansion, check out this link to the Press Conference\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\">materials.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SurvivalCoalition_May-7-Press-Release-Support-Medicaid-Expansion-FINAL.pdf\">http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SurvivalCoalition_May-7-Press-Release-Support-Medicaid-Expansion-FINAL.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 9th, the Joint Finance Committee plans to remove Medicaid expansion from the\u00a0\u00a0budget. This put many issues for people with disabilities in jeopardy. These are several important items\u00a0in the budget that may not go forward: Wage increases for direct care workers in Family Care Wage increases for personal care workers Increased reimbursements for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-news","et_post_format-et-post-format-gallery","et-doesnt-have-format-content"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}