BadgerCare Plus Waiting List

Waiting lists and lines for government-run health care?  Preposterous!  Absurd!  Oh wait...

About 7,000 people are on a waiting list for the state’s health-care program for childless adults, and that list could grow to 20,000 or more by March.

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The program extends the BadgerCare Plus program to adults who don’t have children. Before this year, the health plan was available only to children and their parents.

The state is designing a limited-benefit insurance program for people on the waiting list. That plan would cost people $100 to $130 a month, according to initial estimates; no tax money would be used to fund it.

The final cost hasn’t been set because the level of coverage hasn’t been decided.

Legislators would have to change the law to create the insurance program for people on the waiting list. The earliest it would be available would be March, state Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson told the Assembly and Senate health committees Tuesday.