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Stakeholders have rallied lawmakers for the past decade to expand Wyoming's Medicaid coverage up to the 138% of federal poverty level. Nei-Page said they gain "more and more momentum" with each ...
"A strong antibiotic would have cured it." Wyoming's Medicaid situation. Wyoming is one of 10 states in the country that has yet to vote in favor of Medicaid expansion since that became an option ...
In 2019, as co-chairman of the Joint Revenue Committee, Case supported legislation for Wyoming to accept the Medicaid expansion, extending health insurance coverage to an estimated 19,000 Wyomingites saying: "I'd like to hang tough, I suppose, and say people ought to find their own insurance that the health care markets work, but I think the ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
Gallup reported the percentage of population uninsured throughout 2016 in states that expanded and did not expand Medicaid. For comparison, we added 2013 percentages for each state. (All states' uninsured percentages dropped between 2013 and 2016.)
Medicaid expansion is reducing inequities in U.S. health insurance coverage, a new report finds.
The Affordable Care Act’s chief aim is to extend coverage to people without health insurance. One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion.