WMC Poll Validates Public Desire for Health Care Reform
More Than ¾ of Those Polled, 77% Say Reform of Health Care Needed
Madison – State Senator Jon Erpenbach, the architect of Senate Democratic Healthy Wisconsin plan, is buoyed by the WMC poll findings that demonstrate 77 percent of those called for the Public Opinions Strategies poll believe reform is needed of the health care system, with 30 percent stating that reform should be radical, while only 18 percent say things should stay as they are.
“This poll validates what I have been hearing all over Wisconsin, now is the time to reform health care and to make health care more accessible and affordable for all,” Erpenbach said.
“We are definitely on the right track, all of the negative special interest spending and trash talking on the airways still has not weakened the support of the people of Wisconsin for a change in the health care system,” Erpenbach said.
On the WMC backed Healthier Choices plan Erpenbach stated:
“WMC should listen to its own poll, 77 percent of people want to reform health care and WMC’s Healthier Choices doesn’t do anything about that. This is more of the same, nothing that actually provides health insurance or reforms health care for the people of Wisconsin. The only new ideas are a suggested rate increase paid for by state taxpayers to give doctors and providers more money for the same services the state is paying for now and a tax break for providers to update their patient records. Considering the outrage about spending to actually provide health care to people, it is truly hypocritical to suggest increasing taxes to pay providers a higher rate to get nothing more.”
