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...
Dane and La Crosse Counties Are the Latest to Approve Putting the BadgerCare Issue to a Vote Thursday evening Dane and La Crosse counties became the 7th & 8th counties to approve November ballot measures asking voters if Wisconsin should accept the federal funding for states that expand Medicaid coverage of adults. Accepting that...
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...
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