Memorial Hospital of Natrona County board of trustees

The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee's decision last week to reject the governor's proposal to expand Medicaid isn't about the money or trusting the federal government, local hospital officials said this week.

The Wyoming Medical Center has served more people yet written off far less in uncompensated care this fiscal year than it anticipated, according to a new report.

The Legislature's failures to expand Medicaid have left Wyoming Medical Center officials shaking their heads.