December 15, 2015 is the deadline to log back on to healthcare.gov before the automatic renewal process commences. If an eligible consumer has not taken action by December 15th in terms of their current health plan purchased through the federal insurance marketplace, the marketplace will automatically renew their current coverage,...
On this date in 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As Oma Vic McMurray points out in a letter in the Capital Times today, the U.S. played a large role in drafting the provisions of the convention. Yet 26 years after it was adopted by the UN, the United States is the only...
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...
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