Here are four key notes:
1. Eau Claire has the most expensive health insurance in Wisconsin for medium and large sized employers.
2. In Minnesota, healthcare costs are an average of 20 percent lower than Wisconsin’s costs.
3. Wisconsin ranks 4th in the country in terms of states with high insurance costs.
4. “Most of what has to be done needs to be done at the legislative level,” said Kevin Kane, organization director for Citizen Action of Wisconsin. “The state needs to accept the federal funds for BadgerCare. Eau Claire has had a referendum on the last election and the public overwhelmingly voted for it but it hasn’t yet happened. The best thing we can do here in Eau Claire as individuals is to make sure everyone is covered.”
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