New Report Says Health Care Reform Law Protects 105 Million Americans from Caps on CoverageOnce upon a time, lifetime limits on health care coverage were a common practice. A Kaiser Foundation study reported that up to 59% of health insurance plans in 2009 had some sort of lifetime limit policy in their insurance plans. Lifetime limits...
SJR 48 Would Also Allow Local Governments to Exempt Themselves from MandatesThere are too many constitutional amendments under consideration in the state capitol now to keep up with all of them, but we’re trying as best we can. One of them, Senate Joint Resolution 48, was endorsed by a Senate Committee today. It would build into the...
Assembly Debate Scheduled for Tuesday on Sanctions for W-2 Violations In recent months, there has even more political attention than usual to the subject of “waste, fraud and abuse” – and especially to fraud in receiving public benefits, such as food stamps or W-2 assistance. A pair of companion bills, SB 426 and AB 534, that have been...
This WCCF research brief provides a provider’s eye view of YoungStar, based on interviews of 50 family child care providers in Milwaukee, with analysis of their responses and comments from the interviewees.
Proposed Bill Would Avoid Damaging Cuts to BadgerCare by Closing Corporate Tax LoopholeAt a press conference in the Capitol today, Representative Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) and Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) unveiled a bill that would stop the Department of Health Services (DHS) from implementing changes to BadgerCare that would...
AB 531 Would Strip the Executive Branch of Its Authority Relating to Health Care Reform We all learned in high school that American democracy succeeds by striking a balance between the power of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. However, in Wisconsin that balance was disrupted last year when almost all the...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released a Data Snapshot on High Poverty Communities, highlighting the growth in the number of children growing up in neighborhoods with high levels of poverty (defined by census tracts with poverty rates of 30 percent or more) around the country and in Wisconsin. As the Snapshot illustrates, the...
And DHS Schedules Town Hall Meetings on Long-term Care Cost-Savings The Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow, Feb. 23, on the bill to lift the cap on Family Care, SB 380 (and on the Assembly version of the same bill, AB 477). The hearing will be in Room 417-N and begins at 10:00 a.m. Read...
AJR 100 Would Make Wisconsin the Only State to Constitutionally Require GAAP AccountingTonight the Assembly voted by a sizeable margin, 69-25, to approve AJR 100, which would put key details of fiscal policy into the Wisconsin Constitution. An amended version of the resolution now moves on to the Senate. If it is approved there, AJR...
Too often our public policy and investments related to youth are informed not so much by fact as by myth, popular media, and catchy headlines. What we do know is that the vast majority of youth today are responsible, productive, pro-social, and engaged in the business of growing up to be contributing members of our communities. ...
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