House Cuts Medicaid $34M More

The House has voted 56-14 in favor of HB 260, the bill to cut $34 million in state funds, $108 million total, from the state’s Medicaid program. All House Democrats and Rep. Tom Trail, R-Moscow, voted against the bill; all other House members voted in favor of the measure, which now moves to the Senate/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise.

• What the Medicaid bill does
• Democrats: House passes destructive bill to cut Medicaid
• Wood: Job losses under Medicaid bill is just ‘reducing inefficiency’
• Rusche: ‘We deceive ourselves’, needs can be ignored but they won’t go away
• House takes up Medicaid cuts