WELCOME Every dollar in the health care system comes from our pockets. Our insurance premiums and our tax dollars already pay everyone’s healthcare bills, whether we use the healthcare system or not. Yet, unlike other markets in our economy, consumers have had very little influence over the cost and quality of the services in this market.
Although the health care reform process has been fraught with contention, almost everyone agrees now that the system needs to be reformed as soon as possible and that empowering consumers is a necessary part of the solution.
This site is dedicated to providing Wyoming consumers with information they need to take advantage of new rights and protections available right now and in the near future and to provide a place for consumer feedback as implementation of the Affordable Care Act proceeds.
After a year of debate, in March 2010 Congress passed legislation that will fix the serious problems that small businesses, including the self-employed, face in the current healthcare system: skyrocketing costs and unpredictable premiums, lack of access to affordable coverage and choice among health plans, and administrative inconvenience and hassle. So what does this actually mean for small business owners? Click here for more information.
State Trends in Premiums and Deductibles, 2003–2009: How Building on the Affordable Care Act Will Help Stem the Tide of Rising Costs and Eroding Benefits
Wyoming has more to gain than most states from health care reform.
In Wyoming employer based insurance premiums are rising at a much faster rate than wages - a national trend that is unsustainable and causing many small businesses to not offer insurance to their employees.
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