Here are links to the two Medicaid expansion bills up for hearing today, both sponsored by Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, a physician:

SB 1204, full expansion of Medicaid to cover Idahoans who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which would save the state and county taxpayers nearly $47 million next year.

SB 1205, the “Healthy Idaho” plan, which would expand Idaho’s Medicaid program to cover non-disabled adults who earn up to 100 percent of the poverty level, and accept federal Medicaid expansion funds to cover those between 100 and 138 percent by subsidizing their premiums for private insurance plans purchased through the Your Health Idaho insurance exchange. This approach would require a federal waiver. It would save the state and county taxpayers $28.4 million next year.

Gov. Butch Otter's proposed Primary Care Access Program, to provide some limited preventive and primary care to Idahoans who fall into the coverage gap, would cost the state roughly $30 million a year.