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Health Care

Health care is a critically important service for all children and families in Wisconsin, and a vital part of our work at WCCF. The Council seeks to ensure that all Wisconsin residents, and especially our children, have health insurance and access to high quality, affordable health care services.

Research shows that insured children are healthier, make less use of expensive emergency room services, do better in school, and have higher earnings later in life.  Insurance for kids benefits the children, their families, and the rest of us – by giving our state a healthier future workforce and by shifting the focus of health care spending to prevention, rather than treatment of avoidable ailments.  It also reduces the shifting of the costs of uncompensated care to others. 

Recent News Analysis of Proposed BadgerCare and Medicaid Cuts - WCCF and the Save BadgerCare Coalition have summarized the DHS proposals to cut Medicaid and BadgerCare, and the likely consequences. BadgerCare Plus Resource Page - We have created a webpage that pulls together WCCF documents about BadgerCare Plus and links to other resources for potential participants in the program, as well as for advocates and policymakers. An estimated 67,110 Wisconsin children were uninsured in 2010. The teen birth rate in WI fell 17 percent from 2000 to 2009.

Project Goals

Provide access to health insurance of all Wisconsin residents, starting with our children.

Ensure that people with health insurance coverage are able to access high quality, and culturally appropriate health care services, including dental and mental health care.

Eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care outcomes in Wisconsin.
 

Project Staff

Jon Peacock: Research Director contact
Sara Eskrich: Health Care Policy Analyst contact