Tomorrow morning at 8:30am, the Joint Legislative Council will meet to consider a series of reports out of special committees. All the reports have interesting and important recommendations to consider, but one is of particular importance to families in Wisconsin – the Special Committee on Infant Mortality.Wisconsin has one of the worst...
As mentioned in our recent blog post, Healthcare Highlights of the Holiday Hiatus, Governor Walker announced on December 28th that he wants to lift the cap on Family Care (as well as IRIS and Family Care Partnership) and allow all counties to participate. Later that day, reporters discovered that the Administration had been directed by...
Walker Eases His Position on Two Issues, but Reverses His Support for ExchangesDid you get out of Wisconsin for a week or two in late December or early January? Or perhaps you stayed in town over the holidays, but took a vacation from political news. Even if you only took a brief break from following the news, you may have missed some...
Great News For BadgerCare, Funds Should Enable the State To Avoid Most of the Proposed Cuts In a letter to the Joint Finance Committee, the Department of Health Services (DHS) revised estimates of a $554 million shortfall in this biennium’s Medicaid budget, down to $231.8 million all funds. This is great news for Wisconsin, especially...
December 31st, 2011, was a date we heard a lot about with regard to the Wisconsin Medicaid budget; however, it has come and gone without too much commotion. Let’s backtrack and discuss the significance of this arbitrary deadline, and look ahead to what may happen now that it has passed. To Recap: In the biennial budget, the...
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