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Healthy Wyoming Holding Rally in Cheyenne for Medicaid Expansion

The advocacy group Healthy Wyoming is planning on holding a rally in Cheyenne, ahead of the upcoming budget session, in order to garner support for Medicaid expansion in Wyoming.

WY Medicaid Expansion Could Advance in Joint Revenue Committee

Medicaid expansion is on Legislature's docket, again, but with $120M incentive

Medicaid expansion is again before the Wyoming Legislature, but this time it comes with an incentive of $120 million. President Biden’s latest COVID-19 relief package includes about $6 billion in direct payments to states that expand Medicaid, including $120 million that could go to Wyoming, to offset state costs of expanding the federal health insurance program. States also could use the money to shore up flagging revenues. “This is money we can use to invest in our essential workers, teachers and other infrastructure projects,” Jan Cartwright, executive director of the Wyoming Primary Care Association, said in a statement. “At a time when the state is making difficult budget decisions, accepting these funds and covering 25,000 more hardworking Wyomingites is a win-win.”

Committee supports tobacco tax hike

Green River Star - Committee supports tobacco tax hike   December 23, 2020 CHEYENNE – State lawmakers, during a meeting Friday, narrowly advanced a measure to increase excise taxes on cigarettes and moist tobacco snuff, marking one of the only revenue-raising measures to be advanced by a legislative committee during interim meetings this year. The bill, if approved by the Legislature during its regular session next year, would raise the tax on cigarette packs from 60 cents to 84 cents, keeping with inflation since the last time a cigarette tax increase was passed in the state in 2003. It would also increase the tax on moist tobacco snuff from 60 cents per ounce.

Legislative committee endorses tobacco tax