Six health care advocacy groups sent a letter to the Walker Administration today seeking information on the state’s plans relating to BadgerCare if the online portal for the new health insurance Marketplace continues to have significant problems. WCCF was one of the six groups – along with Community Advocates Public Policy Institute,...
Despite Assurances, Bill Fails to Delay End of BadgerCare Coverage before an Effective Insurance Exchange is in Place Should Wisconsin drop about 90,000 people from BadgerCare on January 1, even if most of them will not have been able to sign up for insurance through the new Marketplace by then? During the budget process, there seemed...
About 15,000 Adults who are Affected Will at Least Briefly Retain Coverage in Transitional Medicaid Don’t be surprised if you start hearing state officials citing lower figures for the number of adults who will lose their BadgerCare coverage at the end of the year. In a sense it’s good news, but it isn’t so much “news’ as an overdue...
Many residents of Wisconsin have yet to fully rebound from the impact of the recession that began five years ago, according to a new county-level analysis released today by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. A typical Wisconsin household earned less money in 2012 than it did before the recession, according to the analysis....
Needless to say, the initial roll out of the online application process for getting coverage through the new federal health insurance Marketplace has been very frustrating for people shopping for insurance and also for those of us who simply want to check it out. Although some of the state-operated insurance marketplaces seem to be...
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