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Jodi Emerson: “After HSHS Sacred Heart closed, we really lost places to put…”

Featuring: Jodi Emerson, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 91

Campaign 2024: Rep. Jodi Emerson (D) Eau Claire - Incumbent Candidate for 91st Assembly District

Published October 17, 2024 | Video Starts at 15:57

What about mental health care? What. What are you hearing on that in the District and what are some solutions? Yeah, that has been a real problem. After HSHS Sacred Heart closed, we really lost places to put people. It's costing our counties additional dollars because they are having to take people elsewhere in the state. (15:57–16:04)

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Asserts that the closure of HSHS Sacred Heart resulted in a loss of mental health care facilities.

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“We finally have an opportunity to have the issues that people care about talked about in the state House.”
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“There's been main issues like expanding Badger care and codifying abortion rights that have just been overlooked in the state assembly.”
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“Health care access is huge, and it's access in general.”
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“Making sure that we're repealing that law from 1849 [regarding abortion].”
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“We really need to look at is the funding for the special education.”
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“If we were to fix the special education funding formula, I think that would be a huge [benefit].”
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“We need to work on getting the inventory up. It just really has fallen off in the last few years.”
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“70% of the people that [HSHS] were servicing were either Medicaid or Medicare patients.”
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“We really need to do a better job when it comes to those reimbursement rates.”
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“It's costing our counties additional dollars because they are having to take people elsewhere in the state.”
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“We need to make sure that we're getting that 1849 law off the books.”
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“We need to make sure that how we are funding our road system is just based on a gas tax because not all vehicles use gas all the time…”
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“The city of Eau Claire is looking at getting, I think we've broken ground on it already, some filtration systems.”
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“We're looking at maybe getting a new well system to deal with the PFAS that we have.”
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“People who have city water rely on it coming out of their tap to be clean.”
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“That's a lot of people in Wisconsin [who have private wells].”
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“We've raised probably about $150,000 from individual donors.”
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