There is clear evidence that after a decade of Medicaid expansion there are significant cost savings to state budgets and state general funds! (Report is …
Continue ReadingThe Truth about Medicaid & Wyoming’s Budget
For as long as we’ve been doing this work, we’ve heard people say that Medicaid expansion is a budget buster. That’s a myth. We’re here …
Continue ReadingTell Your Electeds: Say YES to Medicaid Expansion
Use this quick and easy form to tell your Wyoming State Representative to vote “YES” on House Bill 162 to extend Medicaid coverage to 25,000 low-income Wyomingites and bring hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the state’s healthcare system.
Continue ReadingMedicaid Expansion Bill Advances to House Floor with Strong Support from the Public and House Members
CHEYENNE—Tonight the House Revenue Committee passed House Bill 162 a bill that will increase access to Medicaid for thousands of low-income, hard-working Wyoming residents who …
Continue ReadingGreat press coverage (thank you Sheridan Press!) highlighting the movement for MedEx
SHERIDAN — With only days left to introduce new bills in the Wyoming Senate, Sheridan County residents braved rainfall Monday night to draw attention to …
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 Medicaid relief for Wyoming: What’s happened, and what’s next
Federal COVID-19 relief funds have and will continue to provide critical help to Wyoming’s budget and people THE BASICS The Families First Coronavirus Response Act …
Continue ReadingRita Fatima shares the importance of Medicaid Expansion in Wyoming
Surviving cancer in Wyoming (without insurance)
Myra Garcia is one of tens of thousands of people in Wyoming who work jobs that don’t provide insurance and who can’t afford it through the Healthcare Marketplace.
When she found out she had stage-four cancer, Myra worried not only about her health and how to stay alive to care for her family, but also about the crippling financial burden.
Continue ReadingNew Funding for a Healthy Wyoming
Wyoming could receive $120 million and expand coverage to 25,000 uninsured
March 2, 2021 Media Contacts: Jan Cartwright, Wyoming Primary Care Association, jan@wypca.org, 307.631.5914 (c) Anastasia Marchese, Equality State Policy Center, anastasia@equalitystate.org, 615-945-5488 (c) Congress Proposes New Incentive …
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