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How you can help

• Sign the “Stop the Shift” Petition today
• Contact legislators

In the news

Check back often to see the latest news coverage on this important issue.

• Time to pass hospital assessment
  Guest editorial: Business Journal of Milwaukee, April 18, 2008
• Wisconsin Hospital Association Launches Statewide Ad Campaign
  Wisconsin Hospital Association news release, April 15, 2008
• Letter to the Editor: Control costs by assessing hospitals
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 7, 2008
• Editorial:  Legislators need to stop grandstanding
  Spooner Advocate, April 2, 2008
• Hospital assessment makes fiscal sense
  BizTimes Daily blog, April 1, 2008
• Online poll:  Should the state legislature pass the hospital assessment? (PDF)
  Business Journal of Milwaukee, March 28, 2008
• Editorial: Hospital tax should be passed
  Business Journal of Milwaukee, March 21, 2008
• Editorial: Oxymoron: a popular tax
  Ozaukee Press, March 20, 2008
• Editorial: Quit posturing and get to work
  Racine Times, March 19, 2008
• Poll finds strong voter support for hospital assessment
  News release from Wisconsin Hospital Association, March 18, 2008
• Editorial: Seeing the light on tax
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 18, 2008
• Hospital tax gets a big boost
  Wisconsin State Journal, March 15, 2008
• Business lobby backs hospital tax
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 14, 2008
• WMC supports attracting increased federal funding for Medicaid (PDF)
  News release from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, March 14, 2008
• Hospitals, MMAC: 'Stop the Shift'
  Business Journal of Milwaukee, March 14, 2008
• Businesses, community groups and health providers announce coalition to "stop the shift" (PDF)
  News release from StopTheShift.org, March 14, 2008
• Greater Milwaukee Committee announces support for hospital assessment (PDF)
  News release from the Greater Milwaukee Committee, March 13, 2008
• MMAC supports hospital assessment as antidote for "hidden health care tax" (PDF)
  News release from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, March 12, 2008
• Community health centers support hospital assessment plan (PDF)
  News release from the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association, March 11, 2008
• Milwaukee health systems support hospital tax
  Business Journal of Milwaukee, March 11, 2008
• Guest editorial: Hospital assessment can help solve budget deficit
  Business Journal of Milwaukee guest editorial, March 7, 2008
• Doyle calls special session to address budget shortfall
  Small Business Times, March 5, 2008
• Editorial: Hospital tax needed to ease budget crunch
  Appleton Post Crescent, Feb. 28, 2008
• Editorial: A tax that lowers costs
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 25, 2008
• Editorial:  Hospital Tax Pays For Itself
  The Capital Times, Feb. 25, 2008
• Guest editorial:  Legislature must fix Medicaid reimbursement inequities
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 11, 2007
• Legislature needs to pass hospital tax, by John Oliverio
  Guest editorial: Business Journal of Milwaukee, Nov. 2, 2007