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Pilot Health Care Program’s Finances Revealed

The state’s newest creation in subsidized healthcare has received the go-ahead for expansion. The Wyoming Health Insurance Pool [WHIP] Board of Directors formally approved increased enrollment for the Healthy Frontiers healthcare demonstration project at their May 25th meeting in Cheyenne. The fledgling pilot project’s contracted administrator, BlueCross BlueShield of Wyoming, is hopes to see program enrollment grow far past the ...
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News & Headlines

Massachusetts: A Health Care Fishing Story

By JP Eichmiller on May 20, 2011
As the state’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services committee pressed through its seventh hour of testimony and presentation regarding Wyoming’s Medicaid future, one legislator elected to cut to the chase. “Where can we look for a state to find a model to what we are going to have [in Wyoming] if we just swallow this, [...]Read More>>

State Subcommittee Meets on Healthcare

By JP Eichmiller on May 11, 2011
The proverbial clock continues to tick on the Wyoming Legislature’s decisions regarding state health coverage. The Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee met Monday and Tuesday in Evanston to discuss options and hear testimony on the state’s health and social services. The first day’s discussions were dominated by concerns surrounding possible effects from the federal [...]Read More>>

Healthy Frontiers Looks to Expand

By JP Eichmiller on May 3, 2011
A coalition of state and private representatives continues to work towards limited healthcare expansion for Wyoming residents who may not be able to afford health care but do not qualify for Medicaid. Six members of the Benefit Design Committee for “Wyoming Healthy Frontiers,” met Wednesday in Wheatland to discuss options and goals regarding the health program, [...]Read More>>

Wyoming Congressional Delegates Speak on Death of Osama bin Laden

By JP Eichmiller on May 2, 2011
Wyoming’s legislators began releasing reaction statements within hours of President Barack Obama’s official announcement of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Obama announced to the nation Sunday night the success of a U.S. operation within Pakistani borders to “get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.” Politicians from both parties used the news to [...]Read More>>

Health Care Freedom Act Clears Committee

By Anthony McConnell on January 19, 2011
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Sen. Leslie Nutting’s version of the Health Care Freedom Act (SJ0002). The act, which would add the right of individuals to choose their own health care to the Wyoming Constitution, now moves to the full senate for a vote. This comes the same day at the State of [...]Read More>>

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Blog & Analysis

Wyoming Residents Disapprove of New Health Care Law

By Anthony McConnell on December 21, 2010
From the University of Wyoming LARAMIE – Wyoming residents don’t like the health care law enacted in March of this year, according to a recent University of Wyoming poll. Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed disapproved of the newly-enacted policy, while only 26 percent approved. It is no surprise that nearly all of those opposed to the new [...]Read More>>

Reason.tv: What’s the Biggest Threat to Free Speech?

By Anthony McConnell on December 16, 2010
Some great stuff From Reason What’s the biggest threat to free speech? Reason.tv asks a cavalcade of politicians, journalists, filmmakers and content creators ranging from former Gov. Gary Johnson (R-N.M.) to Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld to The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle to adult filmmaker John Stagliano to new media magnate Andrew Breitbart to call their shot. Featured (in [...]Read More>>

The Grinch Who Stole My Happy Meal

By Anthony McConnell on November 5, 2010
Guest Commentary by Benjamin Barr, Wyoming Liberty Group The food police are at it again. This week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors decided to pass an ordinance banning fast food restaurants from giving out toys with certain children’s meals.  You might have guessed it – there’s an alarming government emergency driving this ban:  Childhood obesity.  That’s [...]Read More>>

Barriers to Entrepreneurship: Not Just in Big Cities, but Wyoming, too!

By Anthony McConnell on November 1, 2010
Guest Commentary By Stephen Klein, Wyoming Liberty Group The Institute for Justice (IJ) released a series of studies last week entitled City Studies: Government Barriers to Entrepreneurship, which has garnered the attention of no less than the Wall Street Journal. The studies cover Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., respectively. [...]Read More>>

Wisconsin Concealed Carry Case Could Impact in Wyoming

By Anthony McConnell on October 21, 2010
Guest Commentary By Charles Curley, Wyoming Liberty Group A Wisconsin circuit court has ruled that Wisconsin’s concealed carry statute (Wis. Stat. § 941.23 (2009)) is overbroad and therefore unconstitutional. State v. Schultz, No. 10-CM-138 (Clark Co., WI, filed Oct. 10, 2010) Wisconsin simply prohibits concealment of weapons; it has no provision for a concealed carry permit, [...]Read More>>

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