An Idaho legislative panel has revived a previously rejected health care proposal designed to provide coverage to low-income residents.
The House Health and Welfare Committee Monday agreed to send the bill backed by Governor Butch Otter once again to the House floor for consideration. The committee had already sent that same measure to the House floor earlier this year.
However, the House never voted on the merits of the bill. Instead, representatives voted to send it back to the panel rather than publicly state how they stood on the proposal.
About 78,000 working Idahoans are believed to be in the gap population that earns too much to qualify for Medicaid, but too little to qualify for insurance subsidies.
Otter’s bill would provide coverage to roughly half of the health coverage gap population. (AP)
