Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Grow to 45 Percent in 2026 Medicaid is at a crossroads. Changes proposed by the President and the House of Representatives would put it on a path that leads to continual cuts and sharply reduced health care services for seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income children and families. Both the House...
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Changes to the Affordable Care Act: What’s At Risk In Wisconsin
Enactment of the House health care plan, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA), would affect most Wisconsinites. But even if it is not enacted, actions taken by Congress and President Trump imperil the subsidized Marketplace insurance plans that provide health care coverage to about 240,000 Wisconsinites. Over the long term, the...
Numbers You Need To Know – Health Insurance in Your County
Find your county below to see trends in the rates of uninsured kids and adults, the percentage of people using Medicaid, and the impacts of the Affordable Care Act. Adams County Ashland County Barron County Bayfield County Brown County Buffalo County Burnett County Calumet County Chippewa County Clark County Columbia County Crawford...
CBO Analysis of ACA Insurance Gains: House Plan Amounts to Repeal and Erase
A new report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirms most of our worst fears about the House Republican plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically change Medicaid. The March 13th report released by the Republican-appointed director of the CBO shows the following: Federal Medicaid funding...
ACA Repeal Bill Becomes a Stealth Attack on Medicaid
Fundamental Change to Structure of Medicaid Would Gradually Yield Deep Cuts A new analysis of the House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) projects that the changes relating to the health insurance Marketplace will cause more than 15 million people to become uninsured. And in my opinion, that’s the...
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