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CAT fund budget set

The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee meets Tuesday. The panel voted unanimously to set a budget for the state's catastrophic health care fund that relies on an increase in counties' deductibles from $10,000 per case to $11,000 for the medically indigent, before addressing possible pay cuts for employees of universities.  (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee meets Tuesday. The panel voted unanimously to set a budget for the state's catastrophic health care fund that relies on an increase in counties' deductibles from $10,000 per case to $11,000 for the medically indigent, before addressing possible pay cuts for employees of universities. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

JFAC has voted unanimously to set a budget for the state catastrophic health care fund for next year that matches SB 1158, which reforms the program to both raise the deductible for counties from $10,000 per case to $11,000, and institute cost-saving measures. Now, they're on to a discussion of how to handle personnel funding cuts for higher ed.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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