The federal Medicaid agency took a significant step last week toward improving access to health services for Medicaid participants. On October 29, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a long-awaited rule that directs states to ensure compliance with Medicaid access standards in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
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...
Wisconsin’s leadership in providing access to health insurance has been gradually slipping, and the latest Census Bureau data on coverage of children illustrates a continuation of that trend. Although Wisconsin continues to have one of the lower uninsured rates in the U.S., we’ve fallen behind all of our neighbors, as the following...
In a preview to the new Census Bureau data on health insurance set to be released this week, WCCF has prepared a new report outlining areas in which the new 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) data will shed light on the growth in access to health insurance since major provisions to the Affordable Care Act were implemented, as well as...
Three different documents released this week – using different data sources – shed light on the dramatic improvements in access to health insurance that have occurred under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including continued improvements in the first half of 2015. Here are the highlights from the new data sources, some of which include...
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