The move could extend health insurance coverage to some 20,000 low-income adults in the state. Mead says accepting federal funds to expand Medicaid could save the state over $30 million a year by reducing pressure on other state health programs. Mead has proposed lawmakers reduce the flow of energy revenues into permanent savings and instead direct more into the state's "rainy day fund," where it could be spent. Committee leaders instead are calling for blanket reductions in most state agency budgets and proposes less spending than Mead wants for education and transportation projects. Over the past year, the state's coal industry has been hit hard, seeing bankruptcy filings by major companies and a federal moratorium on new coal leases. Mead also is calling on lawmakers to accept expansion of the federal Medicaid program, saying Wyoming can't afford not to take money to extend insurance coverage to nearly 20,000 state residents.