As we wait anxiously for the Supreme Court to issue their decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we know that children and families in Wisconsin are already benefiting from the law. It is important to recognize these ways in which the ACA is already making an impact and what could be lost if the Court strikes down the whole law....
One of the notable successes of the federal health care reform law was highlighted by data released last Friday. New Gallup polling results from spring 2012 vividly illustrate the effectiveness of that law (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) in reducing the number of uninsured young adults, even while broader trends in the insurance...
Legal Action of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court today, seeking an order that the state must start enrolling some of the childless adults who are on the BadgerCare Core waiting list. The list of people seeking to get into the childless adult coverage was initiated in October 2009, but the state has never lifted the...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40% of Wisconsin teens are sexually active, but less than 65% of those teens reported using a condom during their last sexual encounter. 1 in 4 teens nationwide has at least one STD, with Wisconsin having the 23rd highest Chlamydia rate in the country. Many Wisconsin counties...
Kaiser Commission Report Shows WI Is Using ACA Options to Improve Medicaid A policy brief released last week by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured contains some rather surprising news about Wisconsin and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The brief summarizes five ways in which states are currently taking advantage of ACA...
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