Taking a few days off…
I’ll be off for the next few days, and will be back and blogging again next Wednesday. Let me know what I miss, and I’ll catch up then…
Eye On Boise archive for July 20, 2016
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016
Loertscher, Hagedorn optimistic that '17 session will address health care gap, and not just for the recently incarcerated 5
Both Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, and Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, came away heartened from today’s first meeting of the Legislature’s interim working group on the state’s health coverage gap. The two are co-chairing the joint committee, which is charged with bringing solutions to the problem...
Wildfire just east of Boise up to 4,446 acres
The Mile Marker 14 fire, which started yesterday near Lucky Peak, is up to 4,446 acres and is burning in grass and sage in steep and rocky terrain, the BLM reports today. Highway 21 has reopened, but motorists are asked to use caution. Rocky Canyon...
Lawmakers will be asked to provide health coverage for post-incarcerated, as part of Justice Reinvestment 1
A subset of Idaho’s health coverage gap population is of particular concern to the state’s Justice Reinvestment project, state Health & Welfare Director Dick Armstrong told lawmakers today: Those just emerging from prison, on probation or parole. Eighty percent of that population has a diagnosable…
Armstrong on why PCAP failed... 4
Rep. John VanderWoude, R-Nampa, asked state Health & Welfare Director Dick Armstrong why the governor’s PCAP primary care proposal died last year. Amid some laughter – Armstrong was the plan’s chief architect and proponent – he told the Legislature’s joint interim working group on the...
Legislative panel on health coverage gap opens first meeting 1
The Legislature’s joint working group on Idaho’s health coverage gap has convened its first meeting. Co-Chair Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, talked about “the resistance that we’re having among members” in the House. “I think mistakenly or otherwise, we thought that we were talking about a pure Medicaid expansion." That was never intended, he said...
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