1. Getting Parents Enrolled in Medicaid: Lessons from Wisconsin‘s BadgerCare Plus Auto-Enrollment Process Thomas DeLeire Lindsey Leininger, Laura Dague, Shannon Mok, Donna Friedsam University of Wisconsin-Madison
Retention of autoenrollees qualitatively equal to retention of enrollees entering through more traditional means –IF– they aren’t subject to premium requirements
1. Use the American Community Survey to aid in a thought experiment: would this be a good strategy to target low-income parents? 2. Varies across states, so we calculate state-by-state tallies of the number of low-income parents potentially captured via autoenrollment and what percent of these autoenrollees are uninsured vs. having private coverage 133% FPL (about $24,000 for a family of 3 in the contiguous US)