--- title: Wyoming Department of Health - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming Liberty Group, a 501c3, founded in 2008 with the purpose of inviting citizens to prepare for informed, active and confident involvement in local and sta canonical_url: https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/wyoming-department-of-health language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/wyoming-department-of-health. markdown-tokens: 642 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/wyoming-department-of-health. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. [![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-lg-trees.png)![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-sm-trees.png)](https://wyliberty.org/) by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff In the United States, it is estimated that 52% of households over the age of 65 have no retirement savings. What is more alarming is that a full 27% of Americans have neither retirement savings, nor a defined-benefits plan, meaning they are wholly unprepared for the mountain of expenses that faces almost everyone foll... ![](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog_articles/778/b2ap3_large_Medicaid-costs.png) by Charles Katebi For four years, supporters of Medicaid expansion urged our elected representatives to permanently commit Wyoming to this entitlement program. And for the fourth year in a row, Wyoming's Joint Appropriations Committee, or JAC, responded with a resounding "No." Governor Matt Mead and Wyoming's biggest healthcare institutions claimed... by Charles Katebi 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 agency's wish list was Medicaid Expansion, costing a whopping $268 million. How did he try selling such an expensive line item to the JAC... by Charles Katebi 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. We've heard this story before. Governor Mead, Wyoming's Hospital Association and the Department of Health all claim that Wyoming's un... ![logo white 002](https://wyliberty.org/images/general_art/logo_white_002.png) **Wyoming Liberty Group** P.O. Box 9 • Burns, WY 82053 Phone: (307) 632-7020