Wyoming’s Collision Course with the Cadillac Tax
Wyomingites pays more for health insurance than residents of any other state. And thanks to Obamacare, we’re about to pay a lot more. Starting in 2018, employer-based health plans that exceed $10,200...
View ArticlePaying Patients to be SmartShoppers
For most of us, our healthcare is paid for by someone else; either our employer or a government entitlement program. When someone else is paying, why bother shopping around for the best price? Now an...
View ArticleMead’s Latest Medicaid Gambit
No single provision of Obamacare has been more disastrous than Medicaid Expansion. It’s cost taxpayers billions more than promised and hurt the very people it was intended to help. Now Governor Mead...
View ArticleWINhealth Loses Under Obamacare: A Cautionary Tale
With just a few weeks until open enrollment, WINhealth has decided to leave Wyoming’s health insurance exchange. The insurer hoped that Obamacare’s federal bailout fund would pay for its losses....
View ArticleThe Health Committee Paves the Way for Affordable Healthcare
In a moment of bipartisan wisdom, the Labor, Health, and Social Services Committee sponsored legislation allowing out-of-state nurses to practice in Wyoming. Like many states, Wyoming bars nurses not...
View ArticleObamacare’s Slow Throttling of Patients and Insurers
Since Obamacare took effect in 2013, the cost of health insurance has exploded. Turns out it’s very costly for the insurers themselves and some are paying the ultimate price. In early October, one of...
View ArticleThe Uncompensated Care Scam
Medicaid’s allies are gearing up their expansion drive for the 2016 budget session. As usual, they’re trying to convince Wyomingites that they will save big if government spends more of their money....
View ArticleThe Doctor Won’t Be Seeing You
Obamacare’s supporters seem to believe that if you give patients insurance, doctors will treat them. But greater access to health insurance doesn’t mean greater access to healthcare. As patients scour...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion and Hollow Promises
Supporters of Medicaid Expansion, including Governor Matt Mead, express an unwavering belief that the federal government will actually fund this entitlement as promised. Yet Washington’s promises often...
View ArticleMedicaid’s Flimsy Math
The director of Wyoming’s Department of Health, Tom Forslund, recently sat down before the Joint Appropriations Committee (JAC) to make his plea for more spending. The biggest item by far on the...
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