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Sara Rodriguez: “Wisconsin could face really severe [healthcare workforce]…”

Featuring: Sara Rodriguez, Democratic | Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History

Published November 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:21

Politicians were way, way, way, way below that. Not surprising. Yes. So, Sarah, you chaired Governor Evers Task Force on the Healthcare Workforce. I did. And unsurprisingly, the final report Highlighted that Wisconsin could face really severe [healthcare workforce] shortages. And as an ob GYN doctor who works in rural parts of the country, I see this all the time in maternal care. (15:21–15:33)

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“They had fired and let go all of their lead experts [at the CDC], so they didn't even have anybody to come and help Wisconsin with [the lead…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 10:57-11:08
“We are one of two states that does not cover women postpartum for 12 months.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 20:25-20:33
“The average age for somebody to buy a house for the first time is 40 years old.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 26:01-26:07
“$13,000 a year for child care for one child.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 27:04-27:08
“Rents in Wisconsin are higher than Texas. They're higher than Austin, Texas.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 29:40-29:46
“We can bring back workers rights.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 00:01-00:03
“That [making child care affordable] would put an enormous amount of dollars back in people's pocketbooks which will support the economy.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 00:05-40:41
“The assembly and Senate hadn't met for eight months [during Covid].”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 02:11-02:15
“I flipped that district. It was a purple, probably a little light red district when I flipped it.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 04:25-04:32
“I'm going on a 72 county listening tour, going to every single county in the state.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 05:29-05:36
“There was an enormous heroin epidemic at the time [in Baltimore].”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 06:16-06:35
“It was pre Affordable Care Act, where people didn't have access to coverage, didn't have access to insurance.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 06:28-06:35
“Republicans are wanting to bring us back to that time [pre Affordable Care Act].”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 06:44-06:49
“We're looking at premiums doubling for people because they are getting rid of the subsidies on the exchange and the Affordable Care Act.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 08:44-08:54
“With these Medicaid cuts, it is gonna hit rural Wisconsin way more than it is going to hit suburban Wisconsin or urban Wisconsin.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 09:32-09:42
“The federal government is making cuts across the board to Medicaid.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 09:41-09:49
“RFK Jr [is] linking random things like Tylenol and autism, which we know does not actually have a link.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 12:19-12:28
“We actually had an ob GYN shortage even prior to when Roe fell.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 15:32-15:39
“After that 1849 abortion law, [OBGYN residents] decided that it was not safe to practice, and they went to a different state.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 15:49-15:56
“We are one of 10 states that has not expanded Medicaid to cover additional people.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 20:02-20:08
“President Trump and his administration and the Republican leadership in Washington is really a huge challenge for us. It is absolutely…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 23:16-23:33
“We cannot no longer rely on the federal government that we're going to have to, to work together with the other states.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 24:01-24:07
“If we have A Republican in the governor's position in the state of Wisconsin. All that chaos you see in Washington, it's all going to…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 24:44-24:55
“We have just a lack of affordable housing.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 26:14-26:18
“What they can afford is around 100, $150,000 home that simply doesn't exist in the marketplace today.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 26:51-26:58
“New Mexico is fully funding it [child care] for everybody.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 27:49-27:52
“Vermont is working with employers to make sure that we can have funding and subsidizing it up to very high levels, up to upper middle class.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 27:51-27:59
“We have got to make sure we are fully funding our public schools in the state of Wisconsin.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 28:17-28:22
“We have got to restore union bargaining rights in the state.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 28:27-28:31
“We reverse Act 10, which took away union bargaining rights.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 28:49-28:53
“We need more supply of housing and we need to make sure that we are prioritizing homeownership.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 29:48-29:55
“We should be enshrining Roe within the state of Wisconsin.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 30:48-30:52
“Tom Tiffany... is extraordinarily extreme on abortion. We're talking absolute bans, no exceptions for rape or incest.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 31:15-31:26
“We just have to flip two seats in the Senate.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 32:15-32:18
“The assembly is a little harder, but it's doable. We got to keep the seats we have. Flip five more.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 32:26-32:33
“Union bargaining rights is one of the number one things I'm going to have to restore.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 32:48-32:53
“Working on housing and childcare to actually make a real difference in people's lives is going to be a priority.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 33:07-33:16
“Looking at the funding for school systems, public schools in the state of Wisconsin.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 33:15-33:21
“We need different voices around the table and particularly healthcare voices because we know it from the inside.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 36:28-36:36
“We know how complicated [the healthcare system] is and we know how broken it is.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 36:35-36:40
“There was a physician that ran on one of the local school boards during COVID and he was such a respected physician that they didn't have…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 36:56-37:17
“The one thing that I want to make sure that I accomplish is making sure that child care is affordable for everybody.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 40:13-40:20
“We know the [child care] system's broken.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 40:21-40:24
“If we can put sustainable progress in place to make sure child care is affordable, that we are able to subsidize it all the way up to…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 40:24-40:34
“I'm hoping that we have a government that works well, that people can access easily, that we have streamlined services so that there is only…”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 40:46-40:59
“Even if we can't reverse Act 10, we can still put in those labor management practices.”
From ER Nurse to Governor: Sara Rodriguez on Making History | Uploaded November 22, 2025 | 41:07-41:12