Tag Archives: Healthy Frontiers

The Demise of Healthy Frontiers

By JP Eichmiller March 9, 2012 The final chapter of the Healthy Frontiers Demonstration Project was written this week in the chambers of the Wyoming Capitol when legislators voted to terminate the program. In a legislative session marked by talk … Continue reading

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Healthy Frontiers Defeated (For Real This Time)

Yesterday afternoon, the Wyoming Senate adopted Joint Conference Committee Report 1 for Senate File 1, the Senate’s budget bill. Among many other things, this report removes a provision that would have continued funding the Healthy Frontiers program for another year. … Continue reading

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Wyoming Senators Vote for Health Care Freedom

SF0091, Healthy Frontiers Fails 3rd Reading Feburary 28, 2012 was a great day for health care freedom. By a two-to-one margin, the Wyoming senate voted to discontinue funding the Healthy Frontiers Medicaid expansion project. This is a big stride toward … Continue reading

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Victories and Vigilance: Budget Session 2012 (so far)

With nearly 250 bills coming out of the Legislative Services Office this session, and only about 20 business days to deal with them, it’s easy to see how liberty can get subverted in Wyoming.  Even liberty-friendly legislators don’t have the … Continue reading

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Floundering Wyoming Health Policies Creeping Into Montana

Dr. Hank Gardner, the architect of Wyoming’s fledgling Healthy Frontiers Demonstration Project, as well as several other state-funded health programs in Wyoming, is reportedly eyeing Montana as the next testing ground for his health services projects. According to a Montana … Continue reading

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Has the Joint Labor Committee Finally had Enough of Healthy Frontiers?

The Joint Labor Committee, minus Senator Charlie Scott, met December 7th and 8th in Cheyenne to discuss various health care issues and proposed legislation.  Once again, committee members, and program cheerleaders and critics sat through another Healthy Frontiers update.  We … Continue reading

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Across-the-Board Budget Cuts a Short-Sighted Strategy

Earlier this month the Joint Appropriations Committee expressed interest in a budget that would cut five to eight percent of state spending. The committee appears to want the cuts to go across the budget, ostensibly without discriminating between essential and … Continue reading

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Mainstream media bias supports Medicaid expansion

If you’ve ever wondered if some in the mainstream media love big government, wonder no longer. Just last week, the Casper Star-Tribune (CST) posted a front page article highlighting the story of an enrollee in the Wyoming Healthy Frontiers Demonstration … Continue reading

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WLG responds to CST health care article

The Casper Star Tribune article Healthy Debate (October 25, 2011) stopped short of revealing why some Wyoming citizens are without health insurance. Even though the percentage of people in Wyoming without health insurance is 14.7, below the national average of … Continue reading

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Testimony: Health Care Reform and the PPACA

Testimony of Regina Meena, Public Policy and Legislative Affairs, Wyoming Liberty Group Before the: JOINT LABOR, HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEECasper, Wyoming, October 11, 2011 Health Care Reform and the PPACA During the past year and a half, the Wyoming … Continue reading

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