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Repeal or reform: The Idaho Legislature’s plans for Medicaid expansion in 2025

by KYLE PFANNENSTIEL / Idaho Capital Sun
| December 17, 2024 11:50 AM

For years, Idaho Republican lawmakers have said the rising budget for Idaho’s largest government program, Medicaid, needs to be controlled.

Some think 2025 may finally be the year for big changes in Idaho Medicaid expansion, which made more lower income earners eligible for the health insurance assistance program.

Idaho voters widely approved the policy in 2018. But many Republican lawmakers say expansion is a key driver behind Medicaid’s budget growth.

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