CMS Is Accepting Public Comments until September 22 on Waiver Proposal A preliminary evaluation of changes to BadgerCare implemented in July 2012 shows that extending premiums to low-income families causes a dramatic decline in their participation in the program. Those results have important implications for the waiver recently...
Since July 2012, Wisconsin has been conducting a test of the effects of requiring more adults in BadgerCare to pay premiums. This 3-page report analyzes the preliminary results and examines their implications for the portion of the pending BadgerCare waiver proposal that would require all parents in the Transitional Medicaid program to...
Advocates Seek Additional Detail and Raise Questions about the Cost Comparisons We learned Tuesday that the average premiums for the improved individual insurance plans available through the new Marketplace next year will be higher than those for some of the individual plans available for 2013 – at least for the minority of...
Workers in Wisconsin and across the U.S. are still struggling because of a relatively weak labor market. That is especially challenging for low-wage workers who must cope with the declining value of the minimum wage, reductions in employer benefits like health care, and growing inequality. An interactive database posted online Friday...
A news release on 8/14 highlights a new UW-Madison study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Wisconsin Partnership program Education and Research Committee, that confirms the link between exposure to lead and school suspensions. Specifically, the study found that "Our study found that children exposed to lead were more...
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