This two-page flyer summarizes the restrictions on eligibility for subsidized health insurance coverage for individuals who have access to employer-sponsored insurance.
More Data Needed on Actual Number of New Enrollees and Decrease in the Uninsured New figures released by federal officials yesterday show that nearly 3.3 million people picked a private health insurance plan through the federal Marketplace by February 1, including more than 56,000 in Wisconsin. In addition, slightly over 60,000...
The standards for determining BadgerCare eligibility changed in a couple of significant ways this week. Although the major eligibility changes (reducing the income limits for parents and improving coverage for adults without dependent children) have been delayed until April 1, the following two changes have just taken effect: The...
New federal poverty level (FPL) figures were released in January and began to apply to BadgerCare on Feb. 1, 2014. This one-page document shows those figures for different family sizes and translates them into the key percentages of the FPL for purposes of BadgerCare and the Affordable Care Act. It includes the monthly and hourly amounts, as well as the annual figures, and it explains the relevance of different percentages of the FPL.
Wisconsin’s projected surplus and its Medicaid deficit are intertwined, and not because the former could be used to remedy the latter (though it certainly could). What they have in common is that they both result in part from rising personal income in our state. A new Wisconsin Budget Project blog post explains how increased income...
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