WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |100 day plan for health care reform
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The Democrat candidate running for the 32nd State Senate District has announced a new plan for state wide health care coverage.
At a news conference this morning Tara Johnson shared her one hundred day plan for health care reform.
If elected she has layed out her plans to start working to change the healthcare system immediately.
She plans on holding a regional summit with local agencies, providers, insurance companies and families.
Johnson says she will then take her findings to the Senate Health Committee where she plans to sponsor legislation addressing mental health and autism coverage.
She says the money to fund this state wide healthcare plan is already in place.
"We all are right now paying for a health care system that is broken. I believe its not an issue of dollars its an issue of how we are spending those dollars, how we are using them."
Johnson is running against incumbent Republican Dan Kapanke.
Last week Kapanke told News 19 only about five to six percent of Wisconsin residents are un-insured.
He says the something needs to be done to help those people without overhauling the entire system.
