Way #5: Increased Accountability and Transparency on Insurance Costs Wisconsin families are benefiting in two major ways from the increased accountability and transparency in our health care system brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA): (1) the “Medical Loss Ratio” (MLR); and (2) rate review requirements. The ACA requires...
Way #4: Preexisting Condition Protections for ChildrenFor parents like Tracy, whose 9-year-old son Sami has a genetic disorder, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) means she can focus on her child’s care instead of his insurance coverage. Because of his condition, Sami has greater—and much more expensive—health care needs than most kids....
Way #3: No-Cost Preventive Care Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many recommended preventive care services, such as mammograms and colon screenings, are covered at no cost to patients – no co-payments, no deductibles, no co-insurancePreventive care is key to optimizing health outcomes by identifying health problems early. However,...
Way #2: Coverage for Young AdultsWhereas the benefit we featured yesterday, Maintenance of Effort, was an important but seldom talked about features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), #2 is one of the ACA’s most widely supported provisions. And with good reason! Young adults have traditionally been the least likely population to have...
As we wait anxiously for the Supreme Court to issue their decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we know that children and families in Wisconsin are already benefiting from the law. It is important to recognize these ways in which the ACA is already making an impact and what could be lost if the Court strikes down the whole law....
One of the notable successes of the federal health care reform law was highlighted by data released last Friday. New Gallup polling results from spring 2012 vividly illustrate the effectiveness of that law (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) in reducing the number of uninsured young adults, even while broader trends in the insurance...
The New W-2 RFP Would Be a Great Place to StartThe chief argument used against Governor Walker during the recall campaign was that he had polarized the political process, making it far more difficult for people with different opinions to work together to address commonly shared goals. In the aftermath of the election, the Governor and...
Last year the state budget process was extremely contentious throughout Wisconsin. Lost on many amid the furor over collective bargaining, cuts to K-12 education, and reduced aid to our communities was the repeal of in-state tuition for undocumented students.
Legal Action of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court today, seeking an order that the state must start enrolling some of the childless adults who are on the BadgerCare Core waiting list. The list of people seeking to get into the childless adult coverage was initiated in October 2009, but the state has never lifted the...
Like other states, Wisconsin has seen significant declines in juvenile crime over the past decade or more, as measured by the number of youth arrested, the number of delinquency charges filed in court, and the number of youth placed in institutions. WCCF previously documented these changes in a Fall 2011 report, “The State of Juvenile...
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