Revised Fiscal Bureau Paper Provides Comprehensive Analysis of Potential Changes to BadgerCare The Department of Health Services (DHS) has modified some of its proposed changes to BadgerCare during the course of the negotiations with federal officials regarding the requested waiver of federal “maintenance of effort” requirements....

New Report Says Health Care Reform Law Protects 105 Million Americans from Caps on CoverageOnce upon a time, lifetime limits on health care coverage were a common practice. A Kaiser Foundation study reported that up to 59% of health insurance plans in 2009 had some sort of lifetime limit policy in their insurance plans. Lifetime limits...

Proposed Bill Would Avoid Damaging Cuts to BadgerCare by Closing Corporate Tax LoopholeAt a press conference in the Capitol today, Representative Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) and Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) unveiled a bill that would stop the Department of Health Services (DHS) from implementing changes to BadgerCare that would...

AB 531 Would Strip the Executive Branch of Its Authority Relating to Health Care Reform We all learned in high school that American democracy succeeds by striking a balance between the power of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. However, in Wisconsin that balance was disrupted last year when almost all the...

And DHS Schedules Town Hall Meetings on Long-term Care Cost-Savings The Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow, Feb. 23, on the bill to lift the cap on Family Care, SB 380 (and on the Assembly version of the same bill, AB 477). The hearing will be in Room 417-N and begins at 10:00 a.m.  Read...