Wyoming Voters: ‘Keep Medicaid for the Truly Needy’
Publication date: July 8, 2021
Written by: Dan Reynolds
A majority of all Wyoming voters (60 percent) would not be willing to pay more in taxes to fund any sort of Medicaid expansion in the state. And, importantly, Wyoming voters (65 percent) support reserving Medicaid for the most vulnerable populations.
Republicans (79 percent), Democrats (77 percent), and Independents (64 percent) are strongly united in their desire to fight Medicaid fraud by conducting more thorough cross-checks of the program against existing state databases. Wyomingites don’t just want to reform Medicaid—they also want to offer more options: 75 percent of voters support allowing the Farm Bureau to provide low-cost insurance options.
The most persuasive messages against Medicaid expansion in Wyoming:
58%
less likely to support
State taxpayers pay for Medicaid: It’s not just federally funded.
56%
less likely to support
It forces people off their private insurance plans and onto a government-run program.
56%
less likely to support
It provides taxpayer-funded benefits to people who do not work at all.
56%
less likely to support
Every state that did this already has gone over the projected budget, wasting taxpayer money.
TOPIC(S): Welfare Reform