Voters in many parts of Wisconsin will have an opportunity next Tuesday (Nov. 4th) to tell state lawmakers whether they should reverse the decision to turn down federal funding to cover more adults in BadgerCare.  There are many reasons why people should vote “yes” on that referendum question – to support taking the federal funding –...

A Marketplace Special Enrollment Period Ends on Nov. 2nd About 63,000 Wisconsinites lost their BadgerCare eligibility in April, and a large portion of them are now uninsured -- as the following pie chart illustrates.  But those who can afford to purchase a subsidized private plan through the federal health insurance Marketplace still...

Participation of Childless Adults in BadgerCare Far Exceeds Forecasts, While Parent and Child Enrollment Continues to Fall  The cost to state taxpayers of turning down federal funding for expansion of BadgerCare will be substantially higher the next time the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) makes that calculation.  The potential savings...

The Medicaid (BadgerCare) expansion issue is going to be a significant topic of debate in the coming months – during campaign season and continuing into deliberations on the next biennial budget. The importance of the issue has been elevated by a number of developments, including the news that Wisconsin has a $93 million shortfall in...

New Gallup survey data released this week indicates that the portion of adults in Wisconsin who are uninsured dropped by an estimated 2.1 percentage points in the first half of 2014. The Gallup analysis of the survey data divides states into two categories: 21 states that have expanded Medicaid to adults up to 138% of the federal...