In the new year, Wyoming has the opportunity to expand access to affordable healthcare for more than 19,000 hard-working low-income Wyomingites through Medicaid expansion legislation.1 …
Continue ReadingPress Release: Recent nonpartisan report concludes Wyoming could experience fiscal gains from Medicaid expansion similar to Montana
Expanding Medicaid in Wyoming will dramatically increase coverage while providing the state with fiscal savings for many years.
Continue ReadingWhy you should care about “uncompensated care”
Wyoming residents pay higher healthcare costs and insurance premiums because hospitals here must cover losses they incur from treating people who lack insurance.
Medicaid expansion would provide coverage to uninsured people, dramatically decrease “uncompensated care” losses, and drive down the cost of healthcare in Wyoming for everyone.
Continue ReadingSubstandard Plans Are Not a Substitute for Medicaid Expansion
Isn’t there some other kind of insurance that would provide affordable health insurance to Wyomingites? Medicaid expansion is the only truly comprehensive solution for low-income …
Continue Reading2021 Medicaid Expansion Update – Considering Incentives in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
March 2021 Summary If the State of Wyoming expanded Medicaid for two years under the terms of the new federal COVID relief legislation (“the American …
Continue ReadingMore Fun Budget Facts!
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 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 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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