A window of opportunity recently opened for individuals who want affordable health care for them and their families. The annual open enrollment period for insurance plans offered through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) began Saturday, November 15 and ends on February 15, 2015. Approximately 139,000 Wisconsinites purchased a...
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Five Reasons To Log Back onto Healthcare.gov During Marketplace Open Enrollment
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New Report Finds Wisconsin No Longer a Leader in Expanding Insurance Coverage for Kids
Wisconsin dropped eight places in rankings and is struggling to insure children in rural areas A new report by a Georgetown University research center found that Wisconsin is no longer the leader that it once was in reducing the uninsured rate for children. The good news is that the percentage of Wisconsin kids with insurance still...
BadgerCare Expansion Enjoys Extremely Broad Public Support
To the long list of reasons why state lawmakers should expand BadgerCare and accept the federal funding for that purpose, we can add another. It’s immensely popular. On a day when conservative lawmakers were doing exceptionally well across most of the country, a number of progressive ballot measures stood up to that tide and scored...
Rapidly Growing Reasons for Expanding BadgerCare Eligibility
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 –...
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