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Wyoming doesn’t have late-term abortions, but a bill to govern them advances anyway
Medical professionals, including one committee member, condemned the proposal to criminalize doctors who fail to perform life-saving procedures on aborted fetuses that are “born alive.”
A bad rerun: 48-hour waiting period for abortions clears Wyoming House committee
The same bill, which would imprison doctors who violate the waiting period for up to ten years, passed the same committee last year with the same vote.
Senate committee advances bill to cut $16.5 million from Wyoming school funding
A bill to cut transportation and discretionary funds would largely offset the “External cost adjustment” districts are set to receive to buoy teacher salaries.
Wyoming House advances statewide lodging tax bill
The proposal would impose a 5 percent tax on hotel stays, generating an estimated $19 million per year mostly from out-of-state visitors.
Wyoming Legislature introduces three anti-abortion measures, including extreme “Heartbeat bill”
The “heartbeat bill” would effectively ban abortion in Wyoming. Another would mandate a waiting period for the procedure. The third is a pointless barb in the culture wars.
Wyoming House kills bill to create new school funding source, will instead spend state savings
The House declined to hold an introductory vote on a proposed corporate income tax that would have generated tens of millions of dollars each year for Wyoming schools.
Wyoming legislators want to cut education funding. So why are they giving teachers raises?
The Wyoming Legislature is looking to increase education funding by $38 million so school districts can give teachers cost-of-living raises. Lawmakers aren’t doing it because they want to—they’re doing it because our state constitution demands it.
Wyoming House wastes no time—or words—killing Medicaid expansion
A bill to expand Medicaid failed an introductory vote Monday, just hours after the Legislature convened, leaving tens of thousands of Wyomingites without healthcare … again.
Wyoming oil CEO supports state corporate income tax
Peter Wold, president of Wold Oil Properties, has a message for the Wyoming legislature: Diversify our state tax structure by passing the National Corporate Profit Recapture Act.
The Wyoming Liberty Group’s Medicaid expansion dog and pony show
The Wyoming Liberty Group actively opposes Medicaid expansion, but it hosted a panel discussion to (allegedly) present “both sides” of the debate. It was facts and information against folksy catchphrases and scare tactics .
FIVE FACTS: The National Corporate Profit Recapture Act
There’s a lot of hype, misinformation, and outright lies surrounding a proposed corporate income tax in Wyoming. Here are five facts you need to understand.
Wyoming’s rural hospitals (and communities) would benefit from Medicaid expansion
Expanding Medicaid would help Wyoming’s struggling rural hospitals offset state budget cuts, provide mental health treatment, and attract and retain physicians to provide better services.
Expanding Medicaid would drive down people’s healthcare costs across Wyoming
When hospitals treat people who can’t afford to pay, they pass off those losses to everyone else, raising medical costs and insurance premiums statewide. This “uncompensated care” amounts to 6 percent of Wyoming hospitals’ total expenses. Medicaid expansion would cover those costs instead, helping hospitals and driving down the price of healthcare for everyone.
Medicaid expansion would lower Wyoming’s state healthcare spending
The State of Wyoming would pay for 10 percent of the cost of expanding Medicaid—roughly $9 million the first year. But other states’ experiences have shown that savings from the program more than offset the costs.
Wyoming’s economic development disasters
If Wyoming wants to diversify and develop its economy, it should focus its efforts on building communities where people desire to live, instead of desperately jumping on each pile-of-garbage “opportunity” that passes our way.