Medicaid Expansion – Wisconsin

Wisconsin uses Affordable Care Act but rejects funding for it, By Guy Boulton, February 29, 2016, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Wisconsin’s decision last week to challenge a fee imposed by the Affordable Care Act set up a comparison not lost on advocates who support the law. The fee has cost the state about $23 million so far. In contrast, Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature’s opposition to the law is projected to cost $678.6 million in state tax dollars through the 2017 fiscal year. That’s because Wisconsin is the only state in the country to use the Affordable Care Act to expand its Medicaid program while turning down the additional federal dollars available through the law to pay for it…”