As states have tackled the issues of health care reform and Medicaid eligibility, Wisconsin has taken a unique approach. The good news is that our state doesn’t have a gap in coverage for adults below the poverty level – in contrast to the other 23 state that have turned down federal funding for Medicaid expansions. The bad news is...
Required Reports Are More than a Year Overdue Wisconsin Citizen Action filed an open records request last week seeking data that the Department of Human Services (DHS) promised to release in June, which will show how many of the adults that the state knocked off BadgerCare have gotten insurance through the new federal Marketplace. I’m...
The case for expanding BadgerCare coverage to all adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL) has been strengthened greatly by four new documents that were issued over the last two weeks. Although these four reports cover a wide variety of topics, and two don’t even mention expanding Medicaid, each of the four sheds new light...
At a conference in Washington DC last week, the Georgetown Center for Children and Families (CCF) initiated an annual award for health care advocacy. WCCF’s research director, Jon Peacock, is the first recipient of the “Bulldog” award, which is named after the Georgetown University mascot. CCF says the award is for Jon’s “determination...
The number of childless adults participating in BadgerCare jumped to more than 103,000 in May – which puts that figure well above the estimate of 94,600 at the end of the biennium that the Dept. of Health Services (DHS) included in their latest budget projections (April 1, 2014). Wisconsin began this year to make all childless adults...
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