The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families (CCF) regularly publishes on its website Postcards from CCF, which highlight best practices in states across the country. A recent Postcard features an interview with WCCF’s Jon Peacock about Wisconsin’s recent expansion of BadgerCare Plus to cover immigrant children and pregnant women living in the country legally, without a five-year waiting period. Wisconsin was able to accomplish this by taking advantage of new opportunities offered by the law that reauthorized the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIPRA), which provides much of the funding for BadgerCare Plus. CCF also highlighted Wisconsin’s efforts in its excellent Say Ahhh! children’s health policy blog.

A more comprehensive review of opportunities for Wisconsin presented by CHIPRA is available on our website, as is a couple of other publications related to extending coverage to legal immigrant kids and pregnant women.