Month: March 2014

Patrick Hansen, the chief financial officer of Strattec Security Corp., has no pretensions of knowing how the Affordable Care Act will affect employers years from now. But for now, Strattec, based in Glendale, has no plans to stop offering health benefits to its employees. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 3/31)

Madison has the resources to become the country's center of healthcare innovation, say the ambitious founders of 100health. (WHN, 3/28)

Support for health reform is inching up in Wisconsin, but a majority still view it unfavorably, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Marquette University Law School. (WHN, 3/27)

Approximately one-third of Wisconsin's graduating medical school students beginning residency training programs next year are staying in state, according to figures from the Medical College of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. (WHN, 3/26)

Adding sales taxes on soda does not reduce obesity rates, as previous studies suggested, according to a researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. (WHN, 3/25)

After hearing complaints from providers, coordinators and advocates, the Department of Health Services has decided to push back changes to the Wisconsin Well Woman Program until 2015 and modify its proposal. (WHN, 3/24)

A bill preventing doctors from legal and administrative repercussions for offering statements of condolence or apology to patients appears to be stalled again, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau. (WHN, 3/24)