Medicaid

Medicaid Expansion has been a contentious issue in the legislature for many years. Proposals to expand the program in Wyoming have repeatedly been defeated.

Numerous Medicaid expansion bills have been filed in the legislature repeatedly in recent years without ever winning final approval.

Supporters have argued that expanding the program would bring in millions of dollars of federal money to the state.

It is believed that about 24,000 to 25,000 people in Wyoming who don't currently have health insurance would be eligible under the expansion.

The bill now moves on to the full Wyoming Senate.

Bills to expand Medicaid coverage in Wyoming have been proposed for years, but none has ever won final approval.

The bill would require the governor to give the legislature written notice of any plans to expand Medicaid.

The Wyoming Department of Health estimates Medicaid expansion would provide health care coverage to an additional 19,000 Wyomingites.