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2025 Wisconsin Snapshot
The Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were selected […]
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Nationally, consumer worry about healthcare affordability is well documented but now a new survey reveals how affordability concerns and ideas for action play out in Wisconsin. A survey of more than 1,100 Wisconsin adults, conducted from June 22 to July 6, 2022, found that: Below are Data Briefs with statewide and regional survey results. 2023 […]
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The Health Care Value Hub’s 2026 Health Care Affordability State Policy Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders with a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The Snapshot explores policies impacting health care affordability across four domains: Policies were selected based on whether they have the potential to impact health care affordability or […]
Read MoreUncompensated Care Increases in WI
Uncompensated care at Wisconsin hospitals increased 6% in 2023 to $1.36 billion, reports Wisconsin Public Radio. Bad debt, where patients cannot pay but do not seek financial aid, accounted for $731.6 million, while charity care rose nearly 8%. The end of pandemic-era Medicaid enrollment policies left more residents uninsured or underinsured. However, hospitals report that even […]
Read MoreWisconsin Snapshot 2024
The 2024 Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were […]
Read MoreWisconsin Private Insurers Pay 5th Highest Rates in the Country
Wisconsin’s hospital prices are 5th highest in the country, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. The study found that Wisconsin employers and employees paid over three times (318%) what Medicare pays for the same service from 2020 to 2022, above the national average of 254 percent. However, he data used in the report is volunteered by […]
Read MoreReport Finds Health Care Disparities for Black and Hispanic Residents in Wisconsin
A report finds that Black and Hispanic people have poorer health care than white people in Wisconsin, reports the Wisconsin Examiner. According to the Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 State Health Disparities Report, Wisconsin’s health care system has the fifth-worth overall performance in the country for Black residents with an overall score of 14, and a score […]
Read MoreWisconsin Residents Struggle to Afford High Healthcare Costs; Worry about Affording Healthcare in the Future; Support Government Action across Party Lines
Key Findings A survey of more than 1,100 Wisconsin adults, conducted from June 22 to July 6, 2022, found that:• Nearly 3 in 5 (59%) experienced at least one healthcare affordability burden in the past year;• 4 in 5 (81%) worry about affording healthcare in the future;• Lower-income respondents and respondents with disabilities are more […]
Read MoreWisconsin Residents Worry About High Drug Costs; Support a Range of Government Solutions
According to a survey of more than 1,110 Wisconsin adults, conducted from June 22, 2022, to July6, 2022, respondents are concerned about prescription drug costs and express a strong desire forpolicymakers to enact solutions. More than half (53%) of survey respondents reported being somewhat or very worried aboutaffording the cost of prescription drugs. Worry varies […]
Read MoreNortheast Wisconsin: Half of Adults Experienced Healthcare Affordability Burdens in the Past Year
According to a survey of Wisconsin adults conducted from October 29, 2019 to November 6, 2019, residents of the Northeast region experienced high healthcare affordability burdens. Half (50%) of Northeast region adults experienced one or more of the following healthcare affordability burdens in the prior 12 months. 1) Being Uninsured Due to High Premium Costs […]
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