Medicaid expansion

The legislation also includes work requirements.

Medicaid expansion also has been in the spotlight in the Florida, Kansas and Wisconsin governor's races.

The Wyoming State Senate on Friday afternoon voted to reject an expansion of the Medicaid program in the state.

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.