Medicaid expansion

A new report by the nonpartisan group Families USA shows states that have expanded Medicaid coverage are doing better financially and have fewer uninsured workers than non-expansion states. With Wyoming facing an estimated $617 million budget shortfall, many in the Cowboy State are hoping the Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee (JAC) reconsiders expanding Medicaid...

The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee's decision last week to reject the governor's proposal to expand Medicaid isn't about the money or trusting the federal government, local hospital officials said this week.

A Wyoming legislative committee voted 7 to 5 on Wednesday to reject Governor Matt Mead's budget request for Medicaid expansion. "I want to ask my good colleagues on the Joint Appropriations Committee, 'What are you doing?'" said House Minority Leader Mary Throne, D-Cheyenne...

With the legislative budget session just a few weeks away, Ivinson Memorial Hospital CEO Doug Faus sat down to discuss what Medicaid expansion would mean for Wyoming. Faus says between 800 and 900 people in Albany County alone would stand to gain health insurance under the proposed expansion...

Any proposal to expand Medicaid will be dead on arrival in the Legislature next month if eight House and Senate members from Natrona County have their way.

Anne Ladd belongs to the Rotary Club, and she sees there a prime example why Wyoming needs to expand Medicaid.

It failed in the general session, but might be given another try in the 2016 Wyoming Legislative Budget Session. Of course, we're talking about Medicaid Expansion.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - It's still unclear whether lawmakers will consider a proposal to expand the state's Medicaid program during the upcoming 2016 session. A legislative committee is expected to decide in January if the optional Medicaid expansion will be included as part of its 2017-18 budget bill that will go before the full Legislature...

Medicaid expansion has failed in the Legislature, but with dropping reserves and financial challenges in the Cowboy State, is it time to take another look at expanding Medicaid?

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead says he'll continue to push for Medicaid expansion. Mead outlined his budget recommendations for the next two years on Tuesday. "We are proposing in our budget a consideration of Medicaid expansion," said Mead...