Governor Walker Changes Wisconsin Senior Care Drug Program Home Care Path

SeniorCare is Wisconsin's prescription drug assistance program for Wisconsin residents who are 65 years of age or older and who meet enrollment rules. The enrollment rules are:
1. Must be Wisconsin resident
2. Must be 65 or older
3. Must pay 30.00 annual enrollment fee
4. Must only count income and not assets

The simplicity of this program may be part of its huge success. The SeniorCare drug program serves about one hundred thousand enrollees. Think of SeniorCare as an insurance plan which began in 2002. The SeniorCare insurance plan is a State of Wisconsin alternative to the Medicare Part D Federal Drug plans being marketed to consumers in Wisconsin.

Under Wisconsin State Governor Walker's administrative changes all SeniorCare enrollees would need to apply for enrollment in a federal Medicare part D plan, and if eligible would be required to use the federal provider instead of the State Of Wisconsin SeniorCare plan.

The changes to the State Of Wisconsin SeniorCare program will reduce the number of participants. Remember the viability of an insurance plan is dependent upon adequate levels of participants. Insurance experts can tell you plan failure is related to low numbers of participants.

The changes to a successful plan will be an inconvenience to the almost one hundred thousand users. The disruption in Wisconsin households does shift the collection of money to varied receivers in and out of Wisconsin. Still wondering how this saves Wisconsin money?

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com encourages seniors to follow this State Of Wisconsin Program change as it unfolds.