Leaders of the Idaho Legislature said Tuesday that hopes for a bill to create an Idaho-run health insurance exchange are all but dead for this session, setting the stage for Idaho to get a federally run exchange in 2014.
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A state legislative task force passed an early framework for an Idaho exchange, but the draft bill didn't get enough momentum to advance in the House or Senate. The plan would have created a state-run portal for insurance buying and selling, without going as far as some states have by picking which insurers can compete for business.
Gov. Butch Otter's administration got Idaho a $20.3 million federal grant to start building a state exchange. Opposition to the 2010 health care reform law has stifled plans to spend the grant, which was meant to help Idaho meet a Jan. 1, 2013 federal deadline to shape its exchange plans and get them a federal stamp of approval.
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Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, said he'd thought at the beginning of this year's session that "if anything would keep us here" longer than expected, it would have been a health insurance exchange.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/03/06/2023701/idaho-run-health-insurance-exchange.html
Hat tip: Idaho Statesman
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