By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Slowly but surely, Medicaid expansion is making its way through the Idaho Legislature. Funding for the expansion, which was mandated by voters through a ballot initiative with more than...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Rep. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay, and Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle, held a town hall gathering Saturday to update locals on the current legislative session, including the status of Medicaid expansion...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Idaho Supreme Court upheld Proposition 2 Tuesday, determining the citizen-led initiative to expand Medicaid is constitutional despite a lawsuit from the Idaho Freedom Foundation. The Idaho Statesman reports...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the implementation of Medicaid expansion in the state Tuesday as part of a lawsuit filed by the Idaho Freedom Foundation....
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff By a wide margin, Idaho voters approved Medicaid expansion through ballot measure Proposition 2 to cover the health care needs for thousands of residents. When its 2019 session begins...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Some of Idaho’s most vulnerable residents are only a year away from access to health coverage. Acting Gov. Brad Little signed a proclamation Tuesday certifying Proposition 2, which voters...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The 2018 Idaho midterm elections offered few local and statewide surprises with one major exception: the state’s widespread embrace of Medicaid expansion. While the initiative benefited from bipartisan support...
By Sen. Shawn Keough Reader Contributor The official voters’ guide from the State of Idaho for November’s ballot contains several arguments against Proposition 2 (Medicaid Expansion) that are false or misleading. Among them: that...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Medicaid expansion is a debate Idaho has grappled with since the introduction of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Now the state has a chance to settle that debate...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff What began as a road trip in an aggressively green 1977 Dodge camper to collect Idahoans’ stories about health care with her husband, Garrett, and their friend, Luke Mayville,...
