Idaho House votes to kill $4.7 billion Medicaid budget
BOISE — The
House Bill 334 failed on a 34-36 vote after several
The fiscal year 2024 Medicaid budget included funding for five programs, including expanded Medicaid, which applies to adults who fall under 138% of the federal poverty level.
In 2018, 60.6% of
Rep.
“Cutting the dollars is not going to change what the end result is,” Raybould said in her floor debate.
However, several other
Their opportunity came Monday.
“This is the largest bill the state has ever seen,” Rep.
“It’s kind of like Medicaid expansion that was sold to us as a
“I can’t get my arms around this budget nor can I get control of it at this point … I don’t necessarily want you to kill it, but I definitely will vote no,”
Even with the recommendation to keep Medicaid expansion in place, earlier this session
Before the House voted to kill the Medicaid budget Monday, Rep.
“We could cut this down to 75,000 or whatever the number that you want to cut it down to, but the problem is we’ve just got to come back with a supplemental next year, which throws it out of the true budget,” Furniss said in his floor debate. “I’d rather take this thing on head on, right now, than have it come back and have it not be in the budget next year, in the true budget that we need.”
Raybould agreed with Furniss.
“So if this body is serious about wanting to cut down on the number of supplementals that we have and passing budgets that reflect the realities of the obligations that we have under law, then you support this budget,” Raybould told legislators. “We could go back and we could cut it in (
In the end, the budget failed by two votes, which kicks it back to JFAC to be rewritten.
What happens next to Idaho’s Medicaid budget
Republican legislative leaders have been targeting Friday as the day to adjourn for the year — or at least the day to wrap up their business for the year before going into recess to await any potential gubernatorial vetoes — since before the session began
Usually, it takes about two weeks for budget bills to complete the legislative process. However, legislators have the ability to suspend rules and fast-track bills during the closing days of a session to speed the process up.
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