What does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mean for you?

- Subsidies to help afford insurance.
    * Click here to see if you are eligible.
- Tax credits for small businesses that provide group coverage.
    * Click here to see if your small business is eligible. 
- $250 rebate to seniors to help pay for medications, and elimination of the "doughnut hole" in Medicare Part D. More info for seniors here.
- An end to lifetime and annual caps on the dollar amount of coverage.
- An end to pre-existing condition exclusions.
- An end to health insurance premium rates based on your health history.
- Children can stay on parent's insurance policy up to age 26 without restrictions, such as full-time enrollment in school.
- An end to co-pays for preventive care like regular check ups, mammograms, or colonoscopies.
Click here for an in-depth look at what's in the legislation.

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Citizen Action regularly produces original research reports and co-releases reports produced by our national partners. See below for our most recent report. Report Page

Latest Reports:  New Report Shows Impact of New Health Care Reform Law on Wisconsin Small Businesses

On July 21st Citizen Action of Wisconsin co-released a new report by Families USA and Small Business Majority on the benefits of the new health care reform law for Wisconsin small businesses.  The report, “A Helping Hand for Small Businesses: Health Insurance Tax Credits,” found that more than 81,600 Wisconsin small businesses are eligible for the credit, which is 86.8% of Wisconsin small businesses with less than 25 workers.  Of those small Wisconsin small businesses, 25,800 are eligible for the maximum tax credit.

Wisconsin will especially benefit from the small business provisions of the new health care law.  According to Kaiser Health Facts, only 36.8% of Wisconsin employers with less than 50 workers provide coverage, down from 58% a decade ago.  (The national average is 41%).  There is very strong research which shows that the reason small businesses are dropping health coverage is cost, and that most want to provide coverage for themselves and their employees.

“The new health care reform law provides immediate and vital relief to Wisconsin’s small businesses who have been forced to drop coverage by skyrocketing health insurance costs,” said Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin.  “Based on this report and other national research, we estimate that over 21,000 Wisconsin small businesses have been forced to drop health coverage over the last decade. The new health care reform starts immediately to reverse this devastating trend by providing unprecedented access to affordable health insurance for Wisconsin’s hard strapped small businesses,” Kraig concluded. Report