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Madison’s Best Kept Secret’: People Living With Mental Illness Find Work, Care and Community at a Clubhouse Built for Them

April 5, 2025

Funding for Yahara House is scarce, and Wisconsin invests little in a health care model that’s thriving in Michigan. By Addie Costello Wisconsin Watch and WPR Chewbacca, Yoda and Princess Leia watched over Joe Mannchen and colleagues as they worked on their Yahara House computers, some designing birthday cards for fellow clubhouse members. Taped above […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Addie Costello, Comprehensive Community Services, Federal Funding Cuts, Medicaid, Mental Health, Yahara House

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Protect & Embrace Medicaid, Lives Depend On It!

March 22, 2025

By Senator Dora Drake For weeks, time and time again, the Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have announced cuts to federal spending under the guise of saving taxpayer dollars. However, under this surface lies a plot to cut healthcare via Medicaid, endangering millions of lives under the careless and irresponsible […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Dora Drake, Medicaid

Some 360,000 in Wisconsin Lose Medicaid Coverage as Eligibility Checks Resume

June 8, 2024

About 30% of recipients up for renewal were disenrolled, most for procedural reasons By Addie Costello WPR/ Wisconsin Watch Teresa was used to paying just $6 for medication to treat a chronic condition that puts her at high risk for a stroke and heart attack. So the Dane County resident was shocked this spring when […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Addie Costello, BadgerCare Plus, Medicaid, Medicaid Unwinding

Wisconsin Republicans Say No to Medicaid Expansion

June 8, 2019

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Earlier this week, Republicans and Democrats met for a Joint Committee Meeting on Finance to discuss expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin. If Medicaid was expanded, the state would receive $1.6 billion through federal funding. During the meeting, Republicans refused to expand Medicaid. If Republicans had agreed to expand it, federal funding would have […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Gordon Hintz, Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, Tony Evers

Wisconsin Department of Health Services Requests $450M Increase To Cover Growing Medicaid Costs

September 29, 2016

Spending Hike Less Than Previous Budget By Laurel White Medicaid costs are expected to grow again in the next state budget, but the increase will be less than in recent years. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is requesting a $450 million funding increase to cover Medicaid spending in the next biennial budget. In her […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Laurel White, Medicaid, State Budget

Today’s Aging Minorities Most Impacted by Poor Finances

April 15, 2016

by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Even as the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act, and the 80th anniversary of Social Security, issues of race, class, and access remain recalcitrant barriers to elder security. Particularly among Blacks, living longer has often meant subsisting […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Medicaid, Poverty, Shantella Y. Sherman, Social Security

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Child Watch: Republican Budget Winners & Losers

April 24, 2015

By Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist April 24, 2015   Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist     In the House and Senate budget proposals for fiscal year 2016, passed with only Republican votes at the end of March, there are big winners and big losers. The big winners are defense spending and contractors and very […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Affordable Care Act ACA, Alternative Minimum Tax AMT, APRIL 24 2015, Budget Proposals, Childrens Health Insurance Program CHIP, Marian Wright Edelman, Medicaid, VOL. 25 NO. 15



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