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Wisconsin has launched a new webpage to help BadgerCare members understand a federal Medicaid work requirement set to take effect in 2027. About 190,000 childless adults are enrolled in BadgerCare, but some may qualify for exemptions.

Wisconsin health dept. introduces BadgerCare recipients to new federal work requirement

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After average premiums more than doubled on HealthCare.gov policies, some lawmakers are proposing another tactic to help more people afford health coverage.

Democrats again pitch for BadgerCare ‘public option’ to expand health coverage

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The Senate is expected to take up the House’s budget resolution at some point and make changes to the document, though when exactly they’ll do that is an open-ended question. The budget resolution would then have to go back to the House for final approval.

State-by-state report by Dems projects millions of people could lose Medicaid coverage

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Kilian: A lack of progress…is less about Elephants versus Donkeys than about Organized Money versus Regular People.

Kilian: Wausau, Medicaid and healthcare should not be used as a partisan football

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Speaker Robin Vos Joins The Resist Movement

Speaker Robin Vos Joins The Resist Movement

To my Dem friends: “as ye sow, so shall ye reap”

Less than 24 hours after Governor Walker’s concession speech in the 2018 Wisconsin governor’s race, a very disheartened and apparently bitter Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos reached for his personal inner Mitch McConnell and threatened to take power away from the incoming governor.

But before all of you Democrats get all snarky and outraged…

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Scott Walker Wouldn't Be Doing These Silly Things IF

Scott Walker Wouldn’t Be Doing These Silly Things IF

we had comprehensive universal single payer health insurance. Instead he is vilifying poor and possibly handicapped Wisconsinites who are currently on Badgercare (Medicaid). But really, the state and federal government co-pay for Badgercare, so removing users from the plan would save money…although I don’t think that’s totally the impetus behind this. If saving money was truly in the plan, Gov.…

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Hey Kids, Let's Drug Test Health Insurance Applicants!

Hey Kids, Let’s Drug Test Health Insurance Applicants!

As I stated yesterday, in the face of the failure of the GOP bid to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, instead of considering accepting the Medicaid expansion like a number of other Republican states, Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker wants to move more people off of BadgerCare (the Wisconsin Medicaid implementation).

the governor again rejected the idea of expanding BadgerCare to…

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Sean Duffy's Attitude On Healthcare Borders on the Criminal

Sean Duffy’s Attitude On Healthcare Borders on the Criminal

Some of the fallout from the GOP’s American Health Care Act is starting to become apparent when the numbers start getting crunched. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an interesting article on Sunday March 19th and some of the effects of the bill on Wisconsin. Let’s start with this lead in:

No congressional district in Wisconsin delivered a bigger victory margin for Donald Trump last fall…

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