Feb 8, 2013 | On The Record, Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Last month, Mental Health America of Wisconsin's Shel Gross and other stakeholders sat down with Governor Scott Walker to talk mental health. The meeting occurred a month after the tragic Newtown school shootings, but the group talked about problems that, they say, have been going on for years. (WHN, 2/8)
Feb 7, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Representative Ron Kind, D-WI, joined Representative Erik Paulsen, R-MN, Wednesday in introducing legislation that would repeal a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device companies included in the federal health reform law. Senators Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, and Orrin Hatch, R-UT, are expected to introduce companion legislation soon. (WHN, 2/7)
Feb 7, 2013 | Top Stories |
In the wake of recent mass shootings in Wisconsin and elsewhere nationally, Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday proposed nearly $29 million more in state money for treating mental illness - a move that could have a big impact on efforts to update Milwaukee County's outdated system of care. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 2/7)
Feb 7, 2013 | Top Stories |
State leaders rolled out proposed changes to the state’s mental health system on Wednesday, a system that currently “is simply not getting the job done,” according to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The Rochester Republican’s Task Force on Mental Health debuted Wednesday, coming shortly after a morning press conference from Gov. Scott Walker, who announced $30 million in funding for expanded and enhanced mental health programs in the next biennial state budget. (RACINE JOURNAL TIMES, 2/7)
Feb 6, 2013 | Top Stories |
Democratic lawmakers and others who are calling on Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans who control the Legislature to expand Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin pointed to a new analysis Tuesday that said the state could save $65 million by accepting the federal money. (AP, 2/6)
Feb 5, 2013 | Top Stories |
Wisconsin collects the eighth highest cigarette tax in the nation but spends less than one penny of every tobacco tax dollar on efforts to help smokers quit and discourage young people from picking up the habit. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 2/5)
Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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Read MoreFeb 5, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
When it comes to the federal health reform law's Medicaid expansion, there's no guarantee the federal money is really there, Governor Scott Walker told reporters last week during a stop in Wausau. (WHN, 2/5)
Feb 5, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Profits for Wisconsin Health Maintenance Organizations and hospitals were down slightly in 2011, according to Alan Baumgarten's 2012 Health Market Review, released Monday. Meanwhile HMO enrollment was up and inpatient utilization decreased. (WHN, 2/5)
Feb 4, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Calling it a position that makes "good fiscal and policy sense," the Wisconsin Hospital Association announced Friday that it supports expanding Medicaid as called for, but no longer required, under the federal health reform law. The hospital association noted that over the past five years uncompensated care at Wisconsin hospitals has increased from nearly $700 million per year to more than $1.1 billion. That's on top of $2.6 billion in impending Medicare reimbursement cuts that will be partly used, the hospital association says, to fund the law's coverage expansion. (WHN, 2/4)
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