Issue Position: Medicaid Expansion

Issue Position

Idaho taxpayers have already lost at least $120 million through the Legislature's rejection of federal funds for Medicaid expansion. There are 104,000 Idahoans that could have health insurance right now on the federal dime, but don't, simply because we have not accepted these funds.

Every Chamber of Commerce in the state has recommended Medicaid expansion, as has the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, the state's hospitals, Idaho Voices for Children and innumerable other constituencies. It is time for us to accept Medicaid expansion dollars so that Idahoans can get the coverage and the return on their tax dollars that they deserve. We cannot afford to keep throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars just to prove an ideological point.

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