Medicaid works — let’s keep it that way
By Hillarie Hagen
Reader Contributor
Idaho Medicaid helps our kids grow into healthy adults. It also helps adults stay healthy so they can take care of their families. Idahoans know …
By Hillarie Hagen
Reader Contributor
Idaho Medicaid helps our kids grow into healthy adults. It also helps adults stay healthy so they can take care of their families. Idahoans know …
By Robert Vande Merwe
Reader Contributor
Idaho’s health care system faces a serious challenge, and it’s not just about doctors. The entire health care workforce is stretched thin. This workforce …
By Becca Renk Foster
Reader Contributor
It wasn’t quite a manger, but after I was born, my parents wrapped me in swaddling clothes and laid me in a dresser drawer …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Open enrollment for the Your Health Idaho insurance marketplace began Nov. 1 and will close Monday, Dec. 16. In the meantime, officials including Executive Director …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nurse practitioners Jane Hoover and Cynthia Dalsing traveled to Washington, D.C., last month for the 2018 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Health Policy Conference. There, …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
State officials are breaking down the details of a Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s health care plan designed to help residents in the so-called Medicaid gap.…
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Local grassroots political movement Reclaim Idaho is going back to its roots this weekend with a number of events in Sandpoint.
The return to …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
There may be uncertainty from Washington, D.C., surrounding health care, but Your Health Idaho isn’t going anywhere.
The state insurance marketplace, established following the passage …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Luke Mayville, co-founder of the grassroots political movement Reclaim Idaho, announced Tuesday that the group has officially filed a proposal to put Medicaid Expansion …
Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
In her July 20 lecture as part of a Reclaim Idaho Call to Action at the Panida, Sandpoint-born Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson reflected on …
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