Lawmakers will need to decide on language for any constitutional amendments when their session starts Feb. 9.
Health
Signups for health insurance down nearly 12% in Wyoming after subsidies expired
Congress let enhanced premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans expire at the end of the year. The subsidy had attracted a steady increase of signups in Wyoming for years.
With rising healthcare costs, what’s a hospital board to do?
As a St. John’s Health Board trustee, Pam Cutler helped steer the hospital’s staff retention and expansion of services effort. The incoming chair is focused on financial feasibility against a bleak backdrop.
Jackson-based lab is developing a blood test to help diagnose ALS
According to Brain Chemistry Labs, the in-the-works test can identify an ALS patient with 97% accuracy. The next step is to get it validated by a clinically certified lab.
Wyoming Supreme Court protects abortion access
A Tuesday ruling that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional closes a chapter in the battle over abortion rights in Wyoming.
Wyoming to receive $205M from federal Rural Health Transformation Program
Wyoming’s first-year award will help sustain critical care access hospitals and labor and delivery services.
‘What a fool to be cautiously optimistic’: Jacksonites react as end looms for healthcare subsidies
With weeks until an end-of-year deadline, Congress lets premium lifelines slip by.
New film documents oft-overlooked conversations of compassion
‘Something Changed in the Room’ documentary explores music therapy in end-of-life care.
Some Wyomingites are seeing healthcare premiums skyrocket. Here’s why
Tax credits that helped people earning up to 400% of federal poverty guidelines are expiring. Some 20,000 Wyomingites could be left in the lurch.
