{"id":438,"date":"2010-05-29T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T01:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-05-29T19:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T01:47:57","slug":"wisconsin-could-save-as-much-as-980-million-from-federal-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/wisconsin-could-save-as-much-as-980-million-from-federal-health-care-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Could Save As Much as $980 Million From Federal Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

President Obama’s health care reform will shave $745 million to $980 million from Wisconsin’s costs, according to estimates that the state issued last week. http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/94933334.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

The Badger\u00a0State will benefit because the federal government will soon be paying a much larger share of the cost of insuring residents\u00a0that have low incomes. Last Wednesday\u00a0was the first time the state has offered any insight as to how much money the new federal legislation will save for it.<\/p>\r\n

Wisconsin’s state health insurance programs, including BadgerCare Plus,\u00a0are rather generous, offering broader coverage\u00a0than other states.\u00a0That’s one reason why the state has one of the lowest rates of uninsured people in the nation, according to\u00a0the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.<\/p>\r\n

And under Obama’s overhaul of the nation’s health care law, a larger part of\u00a0 the cost of Wisconsin’s\u00a0 insurance\u00a0programs will now be paid by the federal government.<\/p>\r\n

The new federal legislation\u00a0plans to increase the numbers of those\u00a0with health-insurance coverage by\u00a0expanding Medicaid programs\u00a0and subsidizing insurance for those with low- to middle-class salaries whos don’t get health insurance through an employer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Wisconsin released\u00a0its estimates in the wake of a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation,\u00a0which projected\u00a0how federal health care reform was going to impact states by raising their costs.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

State\u00a0officials wanted to make it clear that regarding\u00a0Wisconsin,\u00a0the Kaiser report didn’t factor in\u00a0the funds the state will save because it currently is offering health-insurance coverage for many low-income residents.<\/p>\r\n

Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus program is providing health insurance to 769,525 low-income residents, and to 188,000 elderly residents through Medicaid.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama’s health care reform will shave $745 million to $980 million from Wisconsin’s costs, according to estimates that the state issued last week. http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/94933334.html The Badger\u00a0State will benefit because the federal government will soon be paying a much larger share of the cost of insuring residents\u00a0that have low incomes. Last Wednesday\u00a0was the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,456,457,459,286],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-badgercare-plus","tag-federal-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-medicaid","tag-wisconsin-health-care"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}