Lawmakers to consider Medicaid expansion again

CHEYENNE – Medicaid expansion could be back up for debate in the Wyoming Legislature’s 2020 session, as lawmakers will consider a bill to expand the program during a Joint Revenue Interim Committee meeting here in just over a week.

Though initially divisive after the federal adoption of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, 36 states have either fully expanded or are in the process of expanding Medicaid to uninsured people whose incomes are at or below 138% of the federal poverty level.

Three neighboring states – Idaho, Nebraska and Utah – approved ballot initiatives authorizing such an expansion in 2018.

In Wyoming, consideration of Medicaid expansion comes nearly a year after the state House of Representatives killed a similar bill during the 2019 legislative session.

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