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What's at Risk?

By topic...

  • Federal Medicaid Reform
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Expand Badgercare
  • Protect Badgercare

By the numbers...

Families USA Fact Sheet: Defending Health Care in 2017 - What Is at Stake for Wisconsin

431,000
Wisconsinites stand to lose their health coverage.1

Wisconsin stands to lose $13 billion in federal funding for Medicaid, CHIP, and financial assistance for marketplace coverage.2

Approximately 191,000 Wisconsinites who currently get financial assistance to help pay for their health coverage will lose this help and will no longer have affordable coverage options. In 2016, Wisconsinites receiving financial assistance saw their monthly premiums reduced on average $332 thanks to this help.3

The now-historically low rate of uninsured people will spike, with the number of uninsured in Wisconsin increasing 144 percent by 2019.4 This will reverse the immense progress that has been made to expand coverage. Between 2013 and 2015:
  • The number of uninsured in Wisconsin declined 37 percent.
  • Working Wisconsinites: The uninsured rate among working Wisconsinites saw a 34 percent decline.

Approximately 2.5 million Wisconsinites with pre-existing conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cancer could once again be denied affordable, comprehensive coverage that actually covers their health care needs.

Women in Wisconsin will once again be charged more for health coverage just for being a woman.

  • Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women in Wisconsin were charged as much as 42 percent more than men for the same coverage.
Wisconsinites will once again face a world where insurance plans routinely cap the most they will pay for someone’s health care in a year and in their lifetime, effectively cutting off coverage for the sickest individuals when they most need it.
  • Roughly 2.1 million Wisconsinites (including 580,000 children) saw lifetime limits on coverage disappear thanks to the ACA’s ban on these practices.11
Senator Ron Johnson
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 240,000
Total Medicaid Enrollees: 1,201,800

Rep. Paul Ryan
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 25,800
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 42,700
Medicaid Impact Stories 1 CD

Rep. Mark Pocan
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 23,400
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 41,300
Medicaid Impact Stories 2 CD

Rep. Ron Kind
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 28,400
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 41,600
Medicaid Impact Stories 3 CD

Rep. Gwen Moore
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 26,900
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 57,400
Medicaid Impact Stories 4 CD
Senator Tammy Baldwin
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 240,000
Total Medicaid Enrollees: 1,201,800

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 25,900
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 38,700
Medicaid Impact Stories 5 CD

Rep. Glenn Grothman
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 26,600
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 40,200
Medicaid Impact Stories 6 CD

Rep. Sean Duffy
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 36,000
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 45,800
Medicaid Impact Stories 7 CD

Rep. Mike Gallagher
ACA Marketplace Enrollees: 31,200
ACHA Net Loss Projection: 43,000
Medicaid Impact Stories 8 CD

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