Healthy Wyoming Board Member Jan Cartwright speaks about the urgency to expand Medicaid:
Cartwright said Healthy Wyoming knows that the Department of Health and Enroll Wyoming, a nonprofit that helps Wyomingites navigate health insurance, are working hard to contact Medicaid enrollees during renewals, but people can still get lost.
“We talk to people all the time who are so busy in their lives that they don’t realize that something’s happened,” Cartwright said.
“It’s really disheartening to see that more people lost their Medicaid than kept it in that [four-month] time span,” she added.
In the view of Healthy Wyoming, the state has made some strides, extending Medicaid postpartum coverage for new mothers earlier this year. Yet with so many Wyomingites losing their health insurance amid the state’s renewals, there’s an urgency to finally expand Medicaid.
“It just makes it that much more important,” Cartwright said.
Read the full piece from the Casper Star Tribune here.
