health care

There was a capacity crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss a possible health exchange Tuesday evening in Evansville.

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers must decide whether to increase funding for a health care pilot program that supporters say could offer the state a cheaper alternative to Medicaid.

Casper Republican Sen

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will use an unprecedented week's worth of argument time in late March to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul before the 2012 presidential elections

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Last month Wyoming Medical Center's CEO, Vickie Diamond, announced far reaching management changes for the hospital.

This week on Report to Wyoming she talks about those changes put in place largely to offset cuts in funding

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In a move watched carefully by some 20 cities and states, Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to mandate paid sick days for workers.

The bill, signed by Governor Dannel Malloy earlier this month, covers only hourly service workers at companies with more than 50 employees and excludes manufacturers and some others.

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Wyoming News Network

A new report about the coming “health insurance exchanges,” as part of federal health care reform, says the first thing everyone in Wyoming needs to know is - think of them as marketplaces, not exchanges. There could be confusion with the word "exchange" because a private company already uses that term for an insurance-selling portal in Wyoming. The Center for Rural Affairs study examined who is expected to benefit the most from the yet-to-come marketplaces.

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The federal health care law was a big topic of debate among lawmakers today.

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