Hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin residents who are eligible for nutrition assistance are not receiving it, according to a new report by the Legislative Audit Bureau. Nearly one out of every five state residents received nutrition assistance at some point during 2011. Participation in the Wisconsin FoodShare program (informally known...
Federal officials notified the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) that the state will be allowed to make significant cost-cutting changes to BadgerCare. Although we don’t have precise figures yet on the number of people to be adversely affected, it appears that those changes will cause at least 17,000 adults to lose their...
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Late on April 27th
Wisconsin received word from federal officials that the Department of Health Services
(DHS) may proceed with a portion of the proposed changes to BadgerCare. DHS immediately initiated
the process of putting those changes into effect, beginning on July 1, 2012. The modified plan is expected to cause about 17,000 adults to lose their BadgerCare coverage, and many more will have higher costs for their coverage.
Affordable Care Act Protects Coverage of Kids and Lower Income Adults The Department of Health Services (DHS) issued an Operations Memo at 6:15 this evening explaining the changes to BadgerCare that it will implement on July 1. The “ops memo” was distributed after DHS received a letter late today from the federal department of Health...
Core Plan Coverage Plunges to Less Than 27,000, While Waiting List Exceeds 128,000A Wisconsin Budget Project Blog post that I wrote on Wednesday examines the plunging number of people served in the BadgerCare Plus Core Plan, which provides modest health care coverage for adults who don’t have dependent children. Since enrollment in the...
In the interim period between biennial sessions, the Legislative Council creates various special committees – comprised of legislators and public members – to study a broad range of issues and develop policy recommendations. This week the Legislative Council co-chairs released a list of the special committees that they proposed to...
Based on preliminary data (subject to revision) the over fifteen-year decline in the number of juveniles arrested in Wisconsin continued to decline in 2011, although the “pace” of that decline slowed a bit and was less universal. The number of youth (note: this includes 17-year olds who are still reported as juveniles for purposes of...
As we noted in Monday’s blog post, April is Minority Health Month, so we took the occasion to discuss racial disparities in health – particularly with respect to infant mortality rates. An April 24th article in the Journal Sentinel by Crocker Stephenson sheds new light on the extent of the problem in Milwaukee. The article reports that...
A recent report on the benefits of investing in high-quality early childhood education has been getting significant press across the state. A major reason for the attention is that the report is not from the usual suspects—it’s from the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI), headed by George Lightbourn, who served as...
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