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...
Medicaid’s 50th anniversary marks a major milestone in our progress as a nation in providing all of our children access to the health care they need to help them stay healthy. The growth in the program has also spurred more research on its benefits over time, and the most recent studies indicate that access to Medicaid for children not...
As you have no doubt heard by now, the Supreme Court issued a health care reform ruling this morning that confirms what we have known all along – that the law was designed to provide a tax credit to any American who qualifies, regardless of the type of insurance marketplace they use. More broadly, the ruling reinforces the fact that...
Over 180,000 Wisconsinites at Risk of Losing their Marketplace Insurance Coverage Two years ago, Governor Walker and GOP legislators decided to cut in half the income limit for parents’ eligibility for BadgerCare – reducing it from 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) to 100% of FPL. They justified that choice on the basis that...
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