Wyoming Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in Wyoming?

Wyoming is the 23rd healthiest state to live in according to the 2012 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• Occupational fatalities have declined over the past over the past six years. However, at 7.2 deaths per 100,000 workers, the rate is still quite high.
• The infant mortality rate dropped from 7.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2011 to 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2012.

The bad news:

• Smoking and binge drinking rates are high at 23 percent and 18.9 percent, respectively.
• The percentage of young children receiving recommended immunizations dropped to 82.5 percent – the lowest rate in the nation.

Washington's best and worst category rankings:

• Air Pollution – 1st
• Infectious Disease – 2nd
• Children in Poverty – 3rd
• Occupational Fatalities – 43rd
• Primary Care Physicians – 44th
• Immunization Coverage – 50th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Wyoming.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Wyoming health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts Wyoming here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Wyoming, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Does Wyoming have a health insurance high risk pool?

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

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, Wyoming started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about Wyoming's participation, click here.

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 pool to 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. Read more about risk pools here.

Non-profit sources of health insurance information for Wyoming

• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's mission is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Here is its guide on how to find health insurance in Wyoming.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for Wyoming can be found here.
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers. Search for Wyoming health insurance plan report cards.

Wyoming state government health insurance resources

Wyoming Medicaid information —  The joint federal and state government program that pays for medical care for some low  income and medically needy individuals and families.

Wyoming’s KidCareCHIP —  A program that helps Wyoming families provide health insurance for their children.

How did Wyoming officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

#14

Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (1)

• Cynthia Lummis