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MEDICAID: Legislature should leave it alone

| January 5, 2025 1:00 AM

The PEOPLE of Idaho, through the essential CITIZEN’S INITIATIVE Process, won Medicaid expansion to provide essential medical care to ALL our residents and citizens in Idaho in 2020.

This was a hard-fought battle that the PEOPLE undertook to assure all Idahoans had access to decent medical care. I was personally involved in collecting the THOUSANDS of necessary signatures from my local neighbors to get this proposition on the ballot. The PEOPLE voted and approved that proposition, making it law. This expansion enabled all Idahoans to get medical care for COVID, when they needed it most.

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