Citizen Action Led Health Care Referendums Win in Landslide!

Citizen Action mounted a state-wide campaign to place health care advisory referendums on the ballot in cities and counties across the state.  In this large scale grassroots campaign over 32,000 Wisconsin voters signed referendum petitions.

Did the referenda pass in your city or county? Can you write a short letter to the editor explaining why you supported it? Click here to find your local paper. 
Citizen Action's Closing Argument for Health Care Referendums - OPED

As a result, 22 Wisconsin cities and counties had health care advisory referendums on the ballot Tuesday November 4th.  The referendums won in a land slide, garnering 74% of the vote and over 413,000 total votes state-wide. The referendums ran far ahead of everthing else on the ballot, actually running 18 points ahead of Barack Obama!

President-Elect Obama has said before and after the election that comprehensive health care refrom is one of his three top priorities, and that we can't fix the economy without fixing health care.

Share your thoughts about health care reform with President-Elect Obama.

Help us keep the pressure on Congress to pass legislation in 2009 that guarantees quality, affordable health care to everyone in America.

2/16/09 Health care forum, La Crosse (tentative)
2/17/09 Health care forum, Eau Claire (tentative)
2/19/09 Health care forum, Green Bay (tentative)

• Wisconsin Health Insurance Cost Rankings 2009 - This is the 3rd annual report on Wisconsin metro and regional health insurance costs. There continues to be wide cost variations between higher and lower cost areas of the state.  There is a 22% variation between the highest cost major metro area (Eau Claire) and the lowest cost metro area (Madison), which amounts to a $4,146 difference for a family policy and a $1,659 difference for a single policy each year. Press Release | Wisconsin Health Insurance Cost Rankings 2009