Recent Developments Bolster New “Top Ten” List of Reasons to Tap Wisconsin’s Share of Medicaid Funding As new BadgerCare enrollment figures have become available and we've learned more about the state budget bill, it has become even more obvious that our state shouldn’t turn its back on the funding for Medicaid expansions that...
Surge in BadgerCare Enrollment of Childless Adults Strengthens the Case for Tapping Federal Funding As new statistics come in, we can see that the second open enrollment period for the federal insurance Marketplace didn’t merely cause a big increase in Marketplace coverage, it also yielded a surge in BadgerCare enrollment. That’s music...
Federal officials recently released the 2015 Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, better known as the federal poverty levels (FPL). States and the federal government use the guidelines to determine eligibility for many public assistance programs, such as Medicaid, BadgerCare and child care subsidies. The following three tables show how...
In a Wisconsin State Journal article on Sept. 2, the first day of school for the 2014-15 school year, a number of changes for the Madison Schools are highlighted. Notable among them is a change in the student discipline code that can hopefully keep more youth in the classroom and reduce the number of youth suspended or even expelled....
The decision issued yesterday by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals draws attention to a significant drawback of the choice made by Wisconsin lawmakers to cut in half the BadgerCare income eligibility ceiling for parents. That decision was justified on the basis that low-income parents above the poverty level would be able to purchase...
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