Today, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) turns 3! We’re celebrating three years of benefits, new consumer protections, and the imminent possibility of new insurance coverage opportunities. Most of you have had a 3-year-old, know a 3-year-old, or could easily imagine the chaos of a 3-year-old’s birthday party. Our friends at Raising Women’s...
Governor Walker’s budget will reduce the number of uninsured Wisconsinites by adding to BadgerCare about 80,000 childless adults with income below the federal poverty level (FPL). However, the Governor proposes to do so by ending BadgerCare coverage for about 89,000 parents1 and 6,000 childless adults over the poverty level.
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and our own University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute have released the fourth annual County Health Rankings. Nearly every county in the country is ranked on health outcomes (how healthy we are) and on health factors (how healthy we can be). Examples of specific measures used to...
Increasing health care coverage is an important step in improving the health of Wisconsinites.
Unfortunately, the Governor’s budget decreases coverage by ending BadgerCare for about 89,000 parents
and 6,000 childless adults over the poverty level. This was done in order to add to BadgerCare about
80,000 childless adults with income below the federal poverty level (FPL).
New Jackson Hewitt Analysis Only Captures Part of the Full Cost for WI EmployersA report issued last week estimates that employers in states that don't expand Medicaid will pay up to $1.3 billion in additional federal taxes. As Jason Stein reports in an article posted late today on the Journal Sentinel website, the analysis by the...
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