This coming Wednesday, October 1, marks the start of a new federal fiscal year and with it a significant drop in the federal share of funding that helps support Wisconsin’s Medicaid program. The federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), based on a federal formula that reduces the federal share in states where median income is...
The 2015-17 budget proposal recently submitted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) illustrates very clearly why balancing the state budget is extremely difficult when the state is going into the next biennium with a large “structural deficit.” In terms of the funding needed for the Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus programs,...
It’s that time of the year again where those of us at WCCF who love numbers get pretty excited. Today the Census Bureau began the release of its 2013 American Community Survey (ACS) health insurance coverage data. The figures released today show insurance status for the nation and by state. On Thursday more figures will be released that...
BadgerCare Insures More than 8,800 Workers and Dependents in Eight Fast Food Chains Fast food workers were back in the news early this month because they staged a brief strike in many communities to make the case for higher wages. Their efforts to educate the public prompted me to do a little research of my own by tapping an unusual...
The Medicaid (BadgerCare) expansion issue is going to be a significant topic of debate in the coming months – during campaign season and continuing into deliberations on the next biennial budget. The importance of the issue has been elevated by a number of developments, including the news that Wisconsin has a $93 million shortfall in...
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