PowerPoint summary of the Affordable Care Act and changes to BadgerCare in 2014
Affordable Care Act: Overview and Update on Wisconsin Implementation
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Health Care
ACA Opportunities to Reverse Wisconsin’s Reduced Ranking in Children’s Health Insurance
Achieving the Success in Massachusetts Would Result in 43,000 Fewer Uninsured Wisconsin Kids For many years Wisconsin ranked very near the top in the percentage of children who have health insurance, but our state’s high ranking has gradually been slipping. That ranking fell another 3 places in 2012, and we now rank 17th among states on...
Why We Need the Affordable Care Act — in One Graph
Employer-sponsored Insurance Drops by 472,000 in Wisconsin since 2000-01. Okay, there are scads of reasons why we need the reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including many reforms that are already in place and having very positive impacts. So one graph doesn't actually do the – which is a conclusion that was reinforced when I...
Governor Proposes Special Session to Delay Changes to BadgerCare and HIRSP
Expansion of Coverage for Childless Adults Would Also Be Delayed, along with Delay in Cutting EligibilityAt a press conference this afternoon, Governor Walker proposed to delay by three months (until April 1, 2014) the changes enacted in the budget bill to BadgerCare and the state’s Health Insurance Risk Sharing Pool (HIRSP). WCCF is...
Preliminary Thoughts on the New ACA Enrollment Figures
Figures released Tuesday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services confirm what everyone has been assuming for the last few weeks – that the number of people who have completed the process of signing up for insurance is far less than supporters of the Affordable Care Act had initially hoped for. Yet the figures are...
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