Word: co-payment
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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Nevertheless, the outcry prompted Governor Tommy Thompson to appoint a special panel of child-care providers, elected officials and policymakers to reconsider the co-pay provisions. Last week, on its recommendation, Wisconsin revised the plan. Day-care co-payments will be calculated primarily according to income and number of children, not the cost of care. And a family's co-payment obligation will be capped at 16% of gross income. To help close the spending gap between this formula and the earlier one, Thompson will use an extra $25 million in federal money for 1997 that the state had earned...
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