Revived Proposals Could Also Impede ACA Implementation by Using Inconsistent Income Measures After a period of hibernation, THEY have re-emerged, and I’m not talking about the 17-year cicadas or a new wave of zombie movies. These changes have gotten less attention than the potential cicada eruption, but they could be much more damaging...
Almost no attention has been paid to provisions in the Governor’s proposed 2013-15 budget that could cause at least 29,000 children to lose their BadgerCare coverage, and many more to lose benefits.
A couple of articles Monday reported on the latest Republican legislators who have expressed reservations about the Governor’s proposal to remove close to 100,000 people from BadgerCare in January 2014. Several more GOP legislators have indicated interest in a compromise suggested by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) to delay the...
As we have indicated before, the budget bill contains a provision that would end BadgerCare coverage of pregnant women over 133% of the federal poverty level. As introduced, the bill would make those women eligible for prenatal care via the current coverage for “unborn children,” which is known as BadgerCare Plus (BC+) Prenatal. WCCF...
Head Start and Health Care Offer Examples of Rationing Resources by Lottery I wrote a Budget Project Blog post Monday about how some Head Start programs in Indiana recently used a random drawing to determine which preschool students will be removed from the education program for low-income families. Head Start is heading backwards...
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