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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 BadgerCare Plus Resource Page - We have created a new 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 98,000 Wisconsin children were uninsured for all or part of 2006. About 93 percent of the uninsured children in Wisconsin live with an employed adult. The teen birth rate in WI fell 13 percent from 2000 to 2006.

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