Health Insurance Plan Enrollment – Wisconsin

BadgerCare Plus Core has huge enrollment backlog, By Diana Montaño, August 14, 2009, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “The overwhelming demand for BadgerCare Plus Core, the new Medicaid-funded insurance program for low-income childless adults, has the state struggling to process the large number of applications filed in the program’s first two months. The lag is frustrating applicants, community health workers and health officials alike. ‘I feel like it’s $60 down the drain,’ said Cassandra Fier, 23, of the $60 application fee she paid June 15. She has not heard anything since. ‘If the state’s going to be slow, they need to be sending something to individuals letting them know what’s going on.’ From June 15 to Aug. 7, the state Department of Health Services received 37,211 applications for the Core program, of which only 5,000 were processed. Under program guidelines, the state has 30 days to process an application and, if approved, coverage is to begin on the following 1st or 15th of the month…”