BadgerCare

BadgerCare

BadgerCare is a health-care cost-reimbursement program created by former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. It went into effect July 1, 1999, and was created to provide health-care coverage to Wisconsinites whose employers didn't provide it and who made too much money to be covered by Medicaid.

BadgerCare was targeted to cover at least [http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/badgercare/pdfs/adminrule.pdf| 40,000 Wisconsinites] , including 23,000 children, by the end of 1999.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, families qualify for BadgerCare if they make up to 185 percent of the federal poverty level, but not low enough to qualify for federal Medical Assistance.


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