Why Wisconsin Needs to Expand Medicaid Now to Help with COVID-19

Expanding Medicaid is an urgent need – it is one of the best tools our state has and

can use right now to protect people during the COVID-19 crisis.

Nationwide Medicaid expansion should be part of our emergency response to coronavirus.

Wisconsin and 13 other states are putting lives at risk across America by refusing to extend Medicaid coverage to millions who are poor and uninsured. This ensures that many Americans who become infected will go undiagnosed and untreated: people for whom going to the doctor portends financial calamity tend not to do so before their health circumstances become dire.

Expanding Medicaid is an urgent need – it is one of the best tools our state has and

can use right now to protect people during the COVID-19 crisis.

Expanding Medicaid will help workers hit hard by the Coronavirus and

those on the front lines of this crisis.

Health providers on the frontlines of the Coronavirus support Medicaid expansion.

States are making changes to Medicaid to protect their residents

the effects of COVID-19. Wisconsin should too.

Expanding Medicaid can help working families now as the economy worsens.

Health providers on the frontlines of the Coronavirus support Medicaid expansion.

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NBC NEWS 3/26/20 Coronavirus challenges states that rejected Medicaid expansion, leaves uninsured with few options