Plain Truths About Health Care Reform from Plain, Wisconsin“Losing health care coverage just before your due date is not something you read about in “What to Expect When Expecting.” Who would expect to lose their health insurance just when they needed it the most, but that is just what happened to a family from Plain, Wisconsin.”-JoAnn...
What Has and Hasn’t Been Included in the DHS Calculations? As you have probably heard by now, the Department of Health Services (DHS) delivered some good news Friday relating to the budget for Medicaid (including BadgerCare and Family Care). In a September 28 letter to the Joint Finance Committee co-chairs, Secretary Smith said the...
Kudos to the Dept. of Health Services (DHS) for reminding me and others that that September is Infant Mortality Awareness Month. A DHS press release issued Monday highlights some of the Wisconsin trends and the racial disparities in infant mortality rates: Over the past two decades, overall infant mortality rate in Wisconsin declined...
Adult Coverage Has Fallen by 12,500 Since the BadgerCare Changes Took EffectTotal enrollment in BadgerCare fell by 9,244 in August, and is off by 11,900 since the start of the state fiscal year (on July 1). Looking more closely at the latest data, enrollment of children actually grew by more than 600 during July and August. The number...
Modest Improvements in Poverty and Insurance Coverage, but Many Wisconsinites Are Still Feeling Effects of the RecessionThe Wisconsin economy has been slowly recovering from the Great Recession for a couple of years now, and small signs of that recovery can be seen in the newly released census data for 2011. But the new figures from...
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