With health care access under attack, Wyoming lawmakers should be seeking solutions

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Wyoming residents are facing the steepest increases in health care costs in decades.

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So you would expect state lawmakers to focus their time and energy on ways to help — and better yet, to find solutions that improve health care access and affordability in our state. Instead, a recent legislative subcommittee meeting focused on dissecting the Wyoming Department of Health budget to find suspected “hidden” funds to cut or redirect.

It was abundantly clear during the meeting that after decades of budget cuts, the health department has been incredibly creative in finding efficiencies to preserve essential services to our state’s most vulnera