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

The state health department has launched a new webpage to explain the federal work requirement for some Medicaid recipients that will take effect in 2027. The Wisconsin Department...

Postpartum Medicaid extension to reach 16,000 Wisconsin moms, according to DHS

Wisconsin mothers on Medicaid will officially begin keeping coverage for a year after giving birth starting July 1, as the postpartum Medicaid extension signed into law earlier thi...

WisDems: ICYMI: Wisconsin moms on Medicaid now get 12 months of coverage

MADISON, Wis. — Today, thanks to years of tireless work by Wisconsin Democrats, new moms in the state of Wisconsin will receive healthcare coverage for 12 months after they give bi...

Protect Our Care: One year later: The health care affordability crisis

Nearly one year ago, Donald Trump and Republicans made the largest cuts to health care in American history, slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA...

News Conference: Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

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Robyn Vining: How The One Big Beautiful Bill is hurting Wisconsin

Everyone deserves access to quality, affordable healthcare, but right now that’s not a reality for far too many Wisconsinites – an issue made worse by the recent actions by the Tru...

WisDems video: Wisconsin Democrats address affordability crisis and healthcare costs after Big Ugly Bill anniversary

MADISON, Wis. — Today, Senator Brad Pfaff joined Representative Jill Billings and Representative Tara Johnson to discuss how Congressman Tom Tiffany has made life more expensive fo...

State Senate Democratic Committee: Robyn Vining fought to expand postpartum Medicaid, Mike Roberts says Medicaid has bee...

MADISON, WI – July 1st marks the beginning of Wisconsin’s new expanded postpartum medicaid coverage. Wisconsin mothers on Medicaid are now eligible for 12 months of postpartum heal...

Dept. of Workforce: DWD announces grant program to strengthen healthcare workforce

MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Workforce (DWD) today announced a new grant program that will fund projects to address healthcare workforce challenges in Wisconsin’s rural co...

Advocates say feds’ Medicaid work rule could make qualifying for healthcare needlessly hard

Wisconsin healthcare advocates have been worrying for months that new work requirements for some people on Medicaid that will take effect next year will make it harder for people w...

Wisconsin Long-Term Care Advisory Council

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Group Insurance Board

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Abbi Kruse: Childcare providers facing funding cliff across Wisconsin

Wisconsin can choose to invest in children during the years when development is most rapid and intervention is most effective, or we can continue paying far higher costs later thro...

Courtney Graves: Wisconsin needs a new era of welfare reform

Wisconsin Works has not seen any major reforms since the Walker era and is falling behind other states’ welfare-to-work programs.

Protect Our Care: Protect Our Care launches new hub to document the mounting human toll of the GOP Health Care Crisis

Washington, D.C. – Today, as part of our month-long June campaign, Protect Our Care launches “Faces of the GOP Health Care Crisis” — a new hub where readers can scroll and find an...

Question of the Week: How to fix healthcare

If it were up to you to change our healthcare system, would you strengthen the ACA? Adopt Medicare For All? Scrap government programs? It's our newsletter Question of the Week for...

John Scott: Medicaid cuts are hurting Wisconsin

Hospitals in Van Orden’s congressional district were projected to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue under the budget law.

Medicaid Advisory Committee

On June 22, 2026, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC) met on the following agenda: 12:30 PM Meeting Call to Order 12:45 PM Agenda & Ma...

UW Health: UW Health and Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam complete definitive agreement

MADISON, Wis. – UW Health and Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam have officially reached an agreement to bring the medical center into the UW Health system of care. This mileston...

Wisconsin 1 of 9 states to avoid SNAP payment error rate penalty

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin was one of nine states to avoid paying penalties for having a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program error rate on payments of more than 6% in fi...

Protect Our Care: Statement: Trump’s health care affordability crisis is spiraling across the country

Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, Donald Trump is slated to host another “Health Care Affordability Event” at the White House — an utterly laughable event given the dismal state o...

Wisconsin to cut FoodShare, Medicaid for thousands of refugees under new federal rules

Wisconsin Early Childhood Association: Gubernatorial candidate forum on child care as stabilization funds end and race h...

MADISON, Wis. — For the first time, Wisconsin’s four leading child care associations are coming together to host a Child Care Gubernatorial Candidate Forum. The forum gives provide...

Guest opinion: Rural Wisconsin workers lose health insurance twice as fast as before the pandemic