Month: November 2013

President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes to the federal health care law that would allow health insurance customers to keep their health plans — including plans that otherwise would have been barred by the law next year. But the new rules are expected to have little effect in Wisconsin, said Dan Schwartzer, the state's deputy insurance commissioner. The state has allowed insurers to let customers renew their existing health plans this year, thereby sidestepping the new regulations under the Affordable Care Act. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/15)

Minnesota has signed up far more people at lower rates on its state-run health insurance exchange than neighboring Wisconsin, which has struggled with the troubled federal government site. (USA TODAY, 11/12)

Health care advocates are asking Gov. Scott Walker to explain what he will do with 77,000 adults being shifted off Medicaid at the end of the year if those people are not able to get coverage by then on the new health insurance exchange. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/8)