By Marilyn Tavenner, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Fall is a wonderful time of year. Changing leaves. Cooler weather. It’s also the season for people with Medicare to review their current Medicare coverage, as Medicare Open Enrollment begins. As we prepare for Medicare Open Enrollment, which began on October 15 and ends on [...]

By Mandela Barnes Despite his recent continued attempts to take credit for the success of Obamacare in Wisconsin, Governor Walker is directly responsible for the fact that almost 85,000 people, nearly 18,000 in Milwaukee County alone, are currently being denied access to Badgercare. The governor unduly touts the 81 thousand-plus Wisconsin residents that got coverage [...]

By Kevin Kane About once in a generation a visionary idea becomes law and has a striking and profound effect on the lives of all Americans. Now that the first open enrollment has ended, we can say confidently that the Affordable Care Act is one of those visionary laws. In the 1930s, that idea was [...]

On the day the rest of the country is trying to extend coverage before the deadline, tens of thousands are being forced off coverage across Wisconsin Statewide – At media events Monday in Milwaukee and Madison, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, faith leaders, elected officials and citizens losing coverage called attention to Governor Walker’s immoral decision [...]

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With less than two weeks left to sign up for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, grassroots supporters of the mandatory law and federal health officials are rushing to enroll Blacks, other people of color and young people in order to meet the Obama administration’s [...]

An important deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace is quickly approaching. The Social Development Commission is partnering with several agencies to help residents beat that deadline. The ACA Marketplace enrollment ends March 31 for coverage to be effective in 2014. To help provide information on the program and to start [...]

Citizen Action of Wisconsin and Representative Melissa Sargent held a media conference call to release a memo by the Legislature’s Fiscal Bureau showing the impact of federal Medicaid funds from the Affordable Care Act on each county. While Governor Walker rejected these federal funds for BadgerCare, the state can accept them at any time. Additionally, [...]

The Social Development Commission (SDC) will take a number of its most used programs to a Milwaukee neighborhood to make them more easily accessible. SDC will hold an Integrated Mobile Monday on January 27 from 9 am to 4:30 pm at Greater New Birth Church at 8237 W. Silver Spring Drive. The agency is partnering [...]

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent As the Obama administration makes strides to improve the functionality of HealthCare.gov, the flagship website for the Affordable Care Act, Republican lawmakers continue to block federal funds that would help millions of poor Blacks get health insurance coverage. A progress report on the improved performance of HealthCare.gov cited hundreds [...]

By State Representative, Leon D. Young The Affordable Health Care Act, known derisively as Obamacare in most Republican circles, has now morphed into a game of political spin. Republicans openly deride the president’s signature legislation as a blatant attempt to socialize delivery of healthcare in this country. While Democrats, on the other hand, proudly assert [...]