As Summer Heats up, Two Recent Papers Point to the Chilling Effect of Premium Increases on Low-Income Children and Parents' Access to Health Insurance Recent research on the effects of premium increases on enrollment in both Medicaid and CHIP finds that the implementation of even relatively small premiums has a detrimental effect on...
New Gallup survey data released this week indicates that the portion of adults in Wisconsin who are uninsured dropped by an estimated 2.1 percentage points in the first half of 2014. The Gallup analysis of the survey data divides states into two categories: 21 states that have expanded Medicaid to adults up to 138% of the federal...
Advocates Seek DHS Help in Understanding What’s Causing a BadgerCare Decline The BadgerCare changes that Wisconsin put into effect this year have had a surprising and worrisome effect. Over the last 9 months, the total number of children in BadgerCare and Transitional Medicaid has been falling, at a time when budget experts expected a...
This fact sheet examines changes in insurance coverage in Wisconsin since last September. It summarizes the Marketplace enrollment numbers and analyzes the changes in BadgerCare participation levels, including a surprising drop in the number of children in BadgerCare and Transitional Medicaid. Read more
Dane and La Crosse Counties Are the Latest to Approve Putting the BadgerCare Issue to a Vote Thursday evening Dane and La Crosse counties became the 7th & 8th counties to approve November ballot measures asking voters if Wisconsin should accept the federal funding for states that expand Medicaid coverage of adults. Accepting that...
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