A new report examines the potential impact of the impending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on King vs Burwell, a ruling that will determine whether people can continue to get federal tax credits for health care coverage purchased through the federal health insurance market. A ruling in favor of King could negatively affect access to health...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides funding for states to expand health insurance coverage for low-income adults who have income below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). That part of the ACA gave Wisconsin a great opportunity to close a very large gap in BadgerCare – coverage for “childless adults” (adults who aren’t custodial parents of a dependent child).
There are lots of reasons why Wisconsin should expand BadgerCare, but a graph in a Kaiser Commission report issued last week makes it especially clear. That bar graph, shown below, vividly illustrates that from a budget perspective no other state has nearly as much to gain as Wisconsin from expanding Medicaid coverage for low-income...
Wisconsin ranks 44th nationally in state per capita spending on public health, according to a new report by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH): The $13.03 that Wisconsin spent per capita on public health in fiscal year 2013-14 is less than half (42%) of the national average of $31.06. Only six other states spent less per capita for...
Now that Wisconsin and many other states have made very significant improvements in access to health insurance (see, for example, this WCCF paper on insurance coverage), health care providers, advocates and policy makers are gradually paying more attention to other factors that affect health. Improving access to insurance and health...
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