Your emails and calls have advanced health care to step 4 on the way to becoming law. Thank you. If we’re going to expand Medicaid in Wyoming and provide basic healthcare access to 24,000 of our uninsured neighbors, we need the Legislature to pass a bill making it law. Today, we advanced to Step FOUR of that path. On Tuesday, the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee…
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Message from Nate Martin Healthy Wyoming Check out this graphic. It’s an illustration of how a bill becomes a law in the Wyoming Legislature. If we’re going to expand Medicaid in Wyoming and provide basic healthcare access to 24,000 of our uninsured neighbors, we need the Legislature to pass a bill making it law. Right now, we’re on Step One of that path. We need…
Elections Matter! The candidate filing period for most offices in Wyoming concluded May 27. We all need to work hard to recruit, support, and elect pro-choice candidates. This filing period is for “Major Party” candidates: Democrat and Republican. (Independents and Minor Party candidates — Libertarian, Constitution, etc. — can petition to get on the ballot for the general election up until August 29, 2022. See…
The right to choose abortion is essential to ensuring a person can decide if, when, and with whom to have a family. We’ll continue fighting to protect and expand this fundamental human right. While Roe v. Wade continues to be the law of the land, recent events have certainly proved that this foundational block of our nation is now threatened. It’s easy to see ourselves as…
If you’ve been paying attention to the Republican Supreme Court these past few years, you knew the conservative majority was willing to overturn Roe v. Wade. Knowing didn’t make it any easier when we heard yesterday that the Supreme Court has already voted to overturn abortion rights. But there are things we can do. We’ll be looping back with more details about events and calls…
Our Healthy Wyoming coalition partner, the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network (ACS-CAN), is hiring an Engagement Manager to help in our fight for Medicaid expansion. This person will work closely with Wyoming coalition members and partners to continue to grow grassroots campaign networks, engage diverse and new partner organizations, identify and document individual stories, and collaborate on communication strategies for the media and public. Additionally,…