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Advocates to DHS: Where’s the Data?  (Part 1)

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...

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Four New Reports Support BadgerCare Expansion

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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Top Five Reasons a Badger Won the “Bulldog” Award

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...

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