A recent poll from Marquette University shows seven out of ten Wisconsinites support accepting federal funds to fully expand BadgerCare in order to cover more low-income adults. Wisconsin is one of only 14 states that has not yet decided to expand Medicaid. Both red and blue states have taken advantage of the federal funding from the...
If state legislators want to protect people with pre-existing conditions, they should work to defend and strengthen the Affordable Care Act and help expand access to affordable, comprehensive health insurance. Since being signed into law, state and federal opponents have tried without success to repeal and replace the Affordable Care...
Kids Forward applauds Governor Tony Evers for proposing a budget that puts kids and families first and that seeks to address the challenges kids and families of color face. He offered bipartisan proposals to restore two thirds funding for K-12 education, increase mental health services in schools, reform the criminal and juvenile justice systems, give working and middle class families a tax cut, and increase access to quality, affordable health care by expanding Badger Care.
A recent court ruling against the validity of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is likely to be overturned by higher courts, but that’s far from certain. What does seem certain is that the ruling will create much more debate in Wisconsin about the steps that state and federal policymakers should take to protect health insurance coverage for...
Many Republican lawmakers, including the Governor, promised in the weeks prior to the mid-term election that they would ensure that regardless of whatever happens to the Affordable Care Act, Wisconsinites would continue to have the same protections for pre-existing conditions. But thus far, the only legislation they have proposed takes us in the wrong direction.
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