Federal Advocacy

ACT: Illegal Deal-breaking & Gutting More Healthcare

Urge your members of Congress to ensure that a deal is a deal, and prevent health care cost spikes for millions of people. Read on, then contact your representatives. Contact Your Representatives The federal Government temporarily shuts down today while Congress tries to come to an agreement on how the federal dollars should be spent....

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Tell Congress: No cuts to Medicaid or SNAP

Too many working families in Wisconsin are already stretched thin—the last thing they need is higher health and grocery costs.  But Congress is proposing over $1 trillion in cuts to health care and food assistance programs, which includes BadgerCare.  These cuts would leave millions uninsured, double insurance premiums for millions...

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63,000 Wisconsinites at high risk of losing health insurance if Medicaid is cut

The following is a release from the Wisconsin Medicaid Coalition, of which Kids Forward is a founding member. The Coalition has approximately 300 participants from more than 150 entities, including counties, tribes, health care providers, advocates, and those representing impacted populations, concerned about the impact of major changes...

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Northeast Wisconsinites Stand up for Medicaid

Download as PDF Over 35 concerned individuals, mental health service recipients, impacted family members, school and community-based mental health providers, and substance use therapists gathered at Foundations Health & Wholeness in Green Bay to call on decision makers to protect Medicaid.  “This event showed just how concerning the...

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