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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.

Revenue Committee votes to sponsor Wyoming Medicaid expansion bill during 2020 Legislative session
The committee's support—and Wyoming's worsening budget situation—gives Medicaid expansion the best shot it's had in years.

Revenue Committee to consider non-tax proposal to bring hundreds of millions of public dollars to Wyoming
A bill to expand Medicaid would help close the state’s sizeable budget shortfall (and it would help poor people get healthcare, too).

Wyoming’s woeful response to coal’s collapse
As the coal industry falters, costing Wyoming hundreds of millions of dollars per year in lost revenues, state leaders struggle to act.

Wyoming lawmakers have a “cultural bias” against accepting federal funds
When times are good, no one questions whether the Legislature’s refusal to accept federal funding is wise. But as Wyoming’s budget problems continue, those questions are beginning to arise.

Proposal would help stop corporations from sucking profits out of Wyoming
Corporations demand public services, but in Wyoming they don’t help pay for them. A new proposal advanced by the Legislature’s Revenue Committee last week would change that, while raising much-needed funding for Wyoming schools.