A new report from the from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families finds that across the nation the rate of uninsured children declined sharply in 2014 following the implementation of key Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions. The percentage of children in the U.S. who are uninsured dropped to 6.0 percent in 2014, from 7.1...
As you have no doubt heard by now, the Supreme Court issued a health care reform ruling this morning that confirms what we have known all along – that the law was designed to provide a tax credit to any American who qualifies, regardless of the type of insurance marketplace they use. More broadly, the ruling reinforces the fact that...
Over 180,000 Wisconsinites at Risk of Losing their Marketplace Insurance Coverage Two years ago, Governor Walker and GOP legislators decided to cut in half the income limit for parents’ eligibility for BadgerCare – reducing it from 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) to 100% of FPL. They justified that choice on the basis that...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides funding for states to expand health insurance coverage for low-income adults who have income below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). That part of the ACA gave Wisconsin a great opportunity to close a very large gap in BadgerCare – coverage for “childless adults” (adults who aren’t custodial parents of a dependent child).
There are lots of reasons why Wisconsin should expand BadgerCare, but a graph in a Kaiser Commission report issued last week makes it especially clear. That bar graph, shown below, vividly illustrates that from a budget perspective no other state has nearly as much to gain as Wisconsin from expanding Medicaid coverage for low-income...
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