New DHS Data Confirm Need to Improve Access to Care for Adults without Dependent ChildrenThe latest Family Health Survey results that were recently released by the Department of Health Services (DHS) show that low-income “childless adults” constitute a very large share of uninsured Wisconsin residents. Lumping together the 2009 and...
Our state faces a major decision in the next budget regarding whether to use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to improve access to health care for a large segment of uninsured Wisconsin – i.e., adults who aren’t custodial parents of a dependent child. Because this is a very significant policy choice for the state, we need to take a comprehensive look at the costs and benefits.
Walker’s Op-ed Column in the Washington Post Generates a False Rating In a PolitiFact article in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel, Guy Boulton and Dave Umhoefer critique an op-ed column by Governor Walker in the July 12 Washington Post, in which he contended that that the federal health care reform law would “devastate” Wisconsin. His...
Long-awaited 2010 Survey Results Show 11% Uninsured for All or Part of YearData released a week or so ago by the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services (DHS) indicate that an estimated 579,000 people were uninsured in Wisconsin for all or part of the 12 months preceding the department’s 2010 Family Health Survey. That amounts to 11 percent...
Children in Wisconsin are better off than children in 35 other states, according to the new Kids Count Index released yesterday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That's the good news.The bad news is that Wisconsin is losing ground to other states in many areas of child-well being. For example, Wisconsin's child poverty rate increased...
Each year, the Annie E. Casey foundation publishes its KIDS COUNT Data Book, a state-by-state collection of indicators measuring the well-being of the nation’s children. We at WCCF try not to get too caught up in these sorts of composite rankings of which states are best for kids, but they can be very useful in monitoring trends within...
Secretary Smith Questions Federal Limits on His Power to Change BadgerCareOne of the many ways that the federal health care reform law is helping people in Wisconsin is by protecting BadgerCare. Because of the law’s stability provision, known as the maintenance of effort (MOE) requirement, federal officials rejected Walker...
That’s the question facing state officials and early childhood advocates this summer.Good NewsHaving just missed getting a Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant in 2011, Wisconsin is now one of five states invited to apply for up to $22.7 million, half of the amount the state applied for in 2012. In the 1st round, the nine...
In a Washington Post op-ed today, Governor Walker attacks the federal health care reform law. His column draws selectively from the actuarial report done for the state by MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, and studiously avoids the report's many findings that shed a positive light on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition, it appears...
For the 33rd Time, House Votes to Repeal All or Part of the ACAThe House of Representatives voted today on repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – for the 33rd time! No one was exactly on the edge of their seats awaiting the outcome, since the Republican majority voted on 32 previous occasions to repeal or defund all or part of the...
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