Revised Fiscal Bureau Paper Provides Comprehensive Analysis of Potential Changes to BadgerCare The Department of Health Services (DHS) has modified some of its proposed changes to BadgerCare during the course of the negotiations with federal officials regarding the requested waiver of federal “maintenance of effort” requirements....
This report describes the remarkable progress made in the rollout of YoungStar statewide, including information on ratings statewide and by region, efforts to help programs improve, and considerations and challenges for the future.
Gain of 15,700 Private Sector Jobs in January, but Only 6,000 since December 2010 There was good news and bad news on the Wisconsin job front in January. The good news is that preliminary figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that Wisconsin gained 15,700 private sector jobs in January and the seasonally-adjusted...
The January 31 Wisconsin State Journal story about Dane County Judge Juan Colás’ decision to keep 16-year-old Devante James in the adult court system illustrates one of the greatest injustices created by the legislature when changes were made to the juvenile code in 1996. Devante has been charged with being a lookout in a confrontation...
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...
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