Wyoming Health Insurance

How healthy is living in Wyoming?

Wyoming ranks in the upper middle of all states in a 2007 report on the healthiest states in which to live, coming in at 19th, up four places from the year before.

Twenty categories were looked at, and Wyoming made it into the top ten states in three of them:

• Second in cases of infectious disease.
• Third in per capita spending on public health.
• Eighth in violent crime.

On the other hand, Wyoming had harsh marks for occupational fatalities, immunization of children and availablity of primary care physicians.

See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Wyoming.

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Does Wyoming have a risk pool for the uninsurable?

Wyoming Health Insurance Pool (scroll down)
(307) 634-1393

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state-to-state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the poolto keep it in the black. In the best cases they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Find more on risk pools here.

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Cover The Uninsured's guide on finding health insurance in Wyoming

Cover The Uninsured is a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. Read more information on its efforts. It is a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• Cover The Uninsured's facts on the uninsured in Wyoming.
• Its guide on how to find health insurance in Wyoming.
• Materiales En Español -- Guías para encontrar cobertura de seguro de salud.

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Georgetown University's Guide to Health Insurance in Wyoming

Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute has researched and written state-by-state guides for finding and keeping health insurance. It updates these guides as federal and state policies change. A number of non-profit organizations contribute to funding its research. Find more on the Health Policy Institute.

• Georgetown's guide for Wyoming.

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News headlines on Wyoming health insurance

Find the most recent headlines on health insurance in Wyoming at Google News or Yahoo News.

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Want single-payer health care? Concerned about the uninsured?
Contact your elected officials about health care issues

Contact your federal officials. Phone calls are best. Faxes are good, too. Since 9-11 postal mail creates long delays, and many members of Congress simply do not take e-mail seriously -- however, since e-mail is so easy it doesn't hurt to do that, too. Members of the Senate and Congress will usually ignore any correspondence that is not from their district, so its not desirable to blanket e-mail them (this type of abuse is why many do not view it favorably). The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a guide on how to contact your elected officials, including a valuable list of dos and dont's.

• Contact the White House
  Phone: toll free 1-800-671-7887 (ask for the Comment Line)
  FAX: 1 202-456-2461 (fax)
  E-mail:comments@whitehouse.gov
  
  
• Find contact information on your U.S. Representative
  Locate by using your ZIP Code
  Or if you know who your representative is, simply call the Capitol Switchboard toll-free at 1-800-962-3524

• Senator John Barrasso
  PHONE: 202-224-6441 (DC office)
  FAX: 202-224-1724 (DC office)
  Local offices
  Contact by E-mail

• Senator Mike Enzi
  PHONE: 202-224-3424 (DC office)
  FAX: 202-228-0359 (DC office)
  Local offices
  Contact by E-mail
  
  

Contact your state officials:

• Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal
  State Capitol, 200 West 24th Street
  Cheyenne, WY 82002-0010
  PHONE: 307-777-7434
  FAX: 307-632-3909
  Contact by e-mail
  
  
  
• Contact your Wyoming State Senator and State Representative

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USNews health insurance rankings for Wyoming

US News does an annual ranking of what it considers the best health insurance plans in each state. Visit its reports on various health insurance or medical insurance plans being offered in Wyoming.

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Official State Goverment Sites with Wyoming Health Insurance Information

Wyoming Department of Health (WVCHIP) -- the primary state agency for providing health and human services, it administers programs maintaining the health and safety of citizens of Wyoming. Its primary approach in solving health problems is prevention.

Wyoming Children's Health Insurance Program -- designed to ensure that children and teens of both working and non-working families can have the health insurance they need.