Coalition of Wisconsin Aging & Health Groups

12/12/2022

https://www.sciencealert.com/severe-covid-looks-scarily-like-old-age-in-the-human-brain-study-finds

Severe COVID-19 looks scarily like old age in the human brain, according to a postmortem analysis of 54 healthy and infected individuals.

02/16/2022

We need your help! There’s still time to make WI Copays Count!

For years, insurance companies in Wisconsin have allowed copay assistance on medications to count as cost sharing toward insurance deductibles. That has helped ease the burden of out-of-pocket costs for many vulnerable patients. But recently, insurers have stopped counting that copay assistance. It is a move meant to make insurers more profits and leaves WI patients with a financial burden. It’s not fair, it’s not right and we need your voice in this to make copays count now!

Please, go to the link below and send one email to all of the health committee representatives as they consider this important issue in the days to come. They need to hear your voice in support of AB184!

https://www.cwagwisconsin.org/about-5
Please tell them to support AB184 and MAKE COPAYS COUNT IN WISCONSIN!

For years, Wisconsin patients - including many with chronic illnesses - have received valuable copay assistance for prescriptions, reducing their out-of-pocket costs and counting toward their yearly insurance deductible. However, profit-driven health insurers wanted more and are callously ending the...

06/08/2021

https://madison.com/ct/opinion/column/denise-seyfer-i-almost-lost-access-to-lifesaving-medication-senate-bill-215-would-ensure-that/article_618ed284-b500-5e70-bd3a-5576491d78b9.html

"Copay assistance provides a critical lifeline for patients, but it means nothing if it can’t count toward our out-of-pocket costs."

05/12/2021

Have you seen this Vaccination awareness messaging on the buses in Milwaukee? We thank Dana World-Patterson Executive Director, Foundations for Freedom, Inc. and Ricardo Diaz, retired Executive Director of Centro de la Comunidad Unida, UCC for participating as trusted messengers. Ricardo will be the messenger for the second half of the campaign. . This campaign is funded through the DHS COVID Community Outreach Grant.

05/11/2021

This is an op-ed from our President | CEO, Rob Gundermann

"The confidence in vaccines is a game-changer and is pushing us toward a restored normalcy. That’s exactly why we can ill afford to pull up short now."

02/12/2021

https://theconsumervoice.org/issues/other-issues-and-resources/covid-19/open-doors

National Consumer Voice

02/12/2021

Join the Twitter Storm Friday to Open Nursing Home Doors

It's been almost one year since nursing homes shut their doors on March 13, 2020. Join Consumer Voice in marking the one-year anniversary by participating in our advocacy campaign to open nursing home doors.

This Friday, February 12, 2021 take part in a Valentine's Twitter
Call to Action:
Storm urging CMS and members of Congress to and .

How to Participate:
Log onto Twitter on Friday, February 12th and tag CMS ( and ) and your federal legislators to ask them to and
Find out who your members of Congress are.
Find your members' Twitter handles.
If you have a friend or loved one who lives in a nursing home or are a nursing home resident: Personalize your tweet with your story (see examples) and include a photo of your friend/loved one or yourself
If you don't have anyone in a nursing home, share your thoughts about what residents are experiencing (see examples). Attach our graphic.
Tag us
By using a common hashtag and tagging CMS and your representatives, our voices will be amplified!

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On Facebook, tag us and use the same hashtags.
Share this message to your friends and family! Encourage them to join our Valentine's Day Twitter Stor

03/25/2020

Important voting information for Dane County. Please read and share widely

03/03/2020

https://madison.com/ct/opinion/column/lynn-breedlove-tom-frazier-s-advocacy-served-wisconsin-s-older/article_7cb2602c-a6bb-544b-a90c-53304601374b.html

Tom was one of the leading advocates for older people in Wisconsin in his generation. He was the executive director of the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups for over 30