Today I spent the day with a couple hundred health care stakeholders in Chicago at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regional forum on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The day was an opportunity to learn from HHS, share updates, ask questions, and hear from other states in the Midwest on their...

Urban Institute Fills in Details about the 181,000 Adults Expected to Gain EligibilityThe Urban Institute estimates that 181,000 Wisconsinites would gain eligibility for BadgerCare if the state takes advantage of the opportunity provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A report they issued with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

CMS Says States Can Adopt the Option When They Want and for As Long As They Want Federal officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have made it even more attractive for states to use the Medicaid option in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to close a large gap in health insurance coverage for low-income adults. At a...

In our continued efforts to educate Wisconsinites about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) benefits all of us, WCCF teamed up with Know Your Care, the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health to inform and answer questions with media and citizens in Eau Claire and La Crosse this week.Since...

The GAO was asked by Congress to conduct a study on state actions to expand Medicaid under the ACA, and the report was recently released. GAO examined questions pertaining to state responsibilities for implementing the Medicaid expansion, the actions undertaken by the states, as well as state views on the fiscal implications of...