State weighing Medicaid shift

Wisconsin’s new Office of Free Market Health Care, created by Gov. Scott Walker to set up the health insurance exchange required by the federal health care law, is considering moving Medicaid recipients into private plans offered on the exchange. Such a move could reduce state costs and expand options for Medicaid recipients, but one critic questions what protections would remain for patients under such a “privatized” system. (MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE, 5/2)