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Month: September 2012

Wisconsin, Other States Seek a Middle Ground on Medicaid

A handful of states are considering only partially expanding their Medicaid programs under the federal health-care overhaul—a new twist on how states are interpreting the Supreme Court's ruling on the law. Indiana, New Mexico and Wisconsin are among the states asking the federal government to let them omit from the Medicaid expansion residents whose incomes put them just above the poverty level. The states hope to take advantage of provisions in the Affordable Care Act that offer a federal subsidy to help these residents buy private insurance, starting in 2014. (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/18)

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LogistiCare reducing wait times, but transit complaints persist

Wisconsin's new private medical transportation service is slowly reducing wait times on its hotlines, but complaints are still pouring in to the Journal Sentinel about cabs that arrive hours late and drivers who jeopardize people's lives by not showing up to take diabetics to dialysis. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/18)

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