BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho House legislative leaders have introduced a last-minute health care plan to provide basic services the state’s neediest population. The plan has three main features. First, it would launch a new program for uninsured Idahoans or for those Medicaid to receive to receive coordinated care services. Second, hospitals would be directed
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Category: Government
Billionaire Gates meets with Trump to talk foreign aid
By Josh Boak/AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech billionaire Bill Gates is meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss progress in programs for global health and development as well as domestic education. Gates, who as the co-founder of Microsoft is the world’s wealthiest man, will highlight the “indispensable role that the United States has
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Senate confirms Trump pick to head Medicare and Medicaid
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar/Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run Medicare and Medicaid won confirmation Monday from a divided Senate as lawmakers braced for another epic battle over the government’s role in health care and society’s responsibility toward the vulnerable. Indiana health care consultant Seema Verma, a protégé of Vice President Mike
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Idaho’s Workforce Development Task Force to Meet March 3
Idaho Department of Labor News Release Presentations from Idaho associations and state agencies will comprise the majority of the Governor’s Workforce Development Task Force meeting March 3. It runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the West Conference Room on the first floor of the J.R. Williams Building, 700 W. State St. in Boise.
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Idaho bill seeks to block lawmaker emails from public view
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — All emails, texts and other communications between members of the Idaho Legislature would be considered private and blocked from public disclosure under a proposal introduced Wednesday. The measure would create a massive change to the Idaho Public Records Act by shielding most of the communications Idaho lawmakers
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Bill telling women abortion can be halted introduced
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho Senate panel introduced legislation on Wednesday requiring the state to distribute information telling women that a drug-induced abortion may be halted halfway through, despite physicians warning there’s not enough science backing up that claim. Sen. Lori Den Hartog, a Republican from Meridian, says the goal
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Idaho House kills FBI background check bill
By Betsy Z. Russell BOISE — The Idaho House on Monday killed legislation allowing FBI background checks on certain state employees. The bill’s sponsor warned that the state could lose millions of dollars the state Department of Labor relies on to pay federal unemployment benefits. Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, decried the bill as “federal bullying,”
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Idaho House OKs bill banning profiling of motorcyclists
By Shelbie Harris A new bill prohibiting law enforcement from profiling motorcycle riders passed the Idaho House of Representatives unanimously on Monday and will now head to the Senate for consideration. Rep. John McCrostie, D-Boise, spoke in favor of the bill, which prevents officers from pulling over people riding a motorcycle or wearing motorcycle paraphernalia
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Idaho lawmakers debate health budgets, but not coverage gap
By Betsy Z. Russell/Spokesman Review Staff Writer BOISE – Idaho lawmakers have just finished a full week of hearings on health and human services budgets, and while major changes and initiatives are underway in some areas, there was little talk about how to close the state’s health coverage gap. A joint legislative working group that
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Study: Here’s the cost for lower income, corporate tax rates
Press Release BOISE – The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy released a report examining the impacts of proposed House Bill 67 and the current budget context. The proposal would cut top income tax and corporate tax rates and includes an elimination of the income tax on the first, small portion of a household’s income. The legislation
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