Overlooked Budget Measures Could Cause at Least 29,000 Children to Lose BadgerCare Coverage

by | May 7, 2013

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Almost no attention has been paid to provisions in the Governor’s proposed 2013-15 budget that could cause at least 29,000 children to lose their BadgerCare coverage, and many more to lose benefits. These changes are resurrected proposals that the Department of Health Services (DHS) put forward in the fall of 2011. Now, even though most of the changes would not be allowable under federal law until 2019, the proposals are being written into statute.

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