Medicaid Expansion Dies in Wyoming

Republican-sponsored bills to expand Medicaid in Wyoming died last week, the Casper Star Tribune's Trevor Graff and Laura Hancock report. The proposal would have expanded healthcare to 17,600 uninsured Wyomites, they report. One bill died in a Senate committee, and a similar bill was pulled from the House. Eric Boley, president of the Wyoming Hospital Association, "hospitals around the state are stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars in uncompensated costs annually as uninsured people are treated at emergency rooms." Proponents, however, plan to try again in the future.