Kids of all backgrounds need health coverage and access to quality care. As we reflect on April as Minority Health Month, we are grateful that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is already working – and will continue to improve health care choices and outcomes – for kids and families. For minority children in Wisconsin, celebrating Minority...
According to a Wisconsin Budget Project analysis released Friday, the recent contraction of the state’s Medicaid deficit allows the remaining shortfall to be eliminated without damaging cuts to BadgerCare that could adversely affect more than 300,000 Wisconsinites. Read more in Friday’s Budget Project Blog post, or go directly to the...
CBPP Analysis Concludes Wisconsin Would Have Lost 39% of Its Medicaid Funding in 2010A paper released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) asks the question: what would have been the effect if Chairman Ryan’s budget plan, including the Medicaid block grant, had been in effect from 2001 through 2010. The CBPP...
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, was in Madison on Wednesday and delivered some great news for children, although the story has largely escaped media attention. Following a small meeting about benefits of the health care reform law for women, Secretary Sebelius met with a few reporters and was...
Last year, we reported on House Budget Committee Chairman (and Wisconsinite) Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity Medicaid block grant, and the damage it would have done to state budgets and numbers of uninsured people. Fortunately, the Senate kept it from being enacted. Last week the Housed passed a similar bill, on a nearly party line vote,...
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