Employer-sponsored Insurance Drops by 472,000 in Wisconsin since 2000-01. Okay, there are scads of reasons why we need the reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including many reforms that are already in place and having very positive impacts. So one graph doesn't actually do the – which is a conclusion that was reinforced when I...
The 2012 child care market survey made available recently shows the impact of frozen child care payment rates in the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program.
Expansion of Coverage for Childless Adults Would Also Be Delayed, along with Delay in Cutting EligibilityAt a press conference this afternoon, Governor Walker proposed to delay by three months (until April 1, 2014) the changes enacted in the budget bill to BadgerCare and the state’s Health Insurance Risk Sharing Pool (HIRSP). WCCF is...
Figures released Tuesday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services confirm what everyone has been assuming for the last few weeks – that the number of people who have completed the process of signing up for insurance is far less than supporters of the Affordable Care Act had initially hoped for. Yet the figures are...
Senator Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to Governor Walker today urging him to provide a few more months for BadgerCare recipients to shift to insurance purchased through the new Health Insurance Marketplace. Wisconsin officials expect to send letters at the end of November to about 77,000 people now on BadgerCare to notify that they will...
Gannett Analysis Examines Possible Reasons for Wisconsin’s Higher Rates USA Today and a number of local Gannett papers published an interesting story Sunday about differences in ACA implementation between Wisconsin and Minnesota. The lengthy article by Donovan Slack of Gannett says that the Gopher State, in contrast to Wisconsin, is...
With the relatively recent US Supreme Court (USSC) decision that prohibits mandatory life without parole sentences for individuals who committed crimes while under the age of 18, a couple key issues are making their way through state courts, including: (1) are excessively long sentences given in lieu of JLWOP essentially a life sentence...
Six health care advocacy groups sent a letter to the Walker Administration today seeking information on the state’s plans relating to BadgerCare if the online portal for the new health insurance Marketplace continues to have significant problems. WCCF was one of the six groups – along with Community Advocates Public Policy Institute,...
Despite Assurances, Bill Fails to Delay End of BadgerCare Coverage before an Effective Insurance Exchange is in Place Should Wisconsin drop about 90,000 people from BadgerCare on January 1, even if most of them will not have been able to sign up for insurance through the new Marketplace by then? During the budget process, there seemed...
LFB Paper Confirms Large Gap in Budget for the State's Welfare to Work Program The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) is scheduled to meet this Wednesday, November 6, on a number of budget issues, including a couple that we will be watching. Among those is a proposal from the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) and Dept. of Health Services...
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