Builders Playbook Scales Postpartum Coverage

A politically diverse, locally rooted civic organizing model (the 'Builders' movement) helped Wisconsin extend postpartum Medicaid from 60 days to one year, becoming the 49th state to do so. The episode suggests a repeatable playbook where small cross‑partisan teams translate lived maternal needs into state‑level policy wins. — If replicable, this organizing model could accelerate diffusion of maternal‑health protections nationwide and reshape how health policy is won—via ordinary citizens rather than party machines.