Healthcare continues to be in the news despite Congress turning their focus to taxes. The Trump administration last week decided to end a lesser-known healthcare subsidy called cost-sharing reductions or CSRs, an action that could upend the insurance market and cause Idahoans to lose coverage. Now CSRs have been revived by a bipartisan deal in the United States Senate that would fund them. With all the back and forth, what does it all mean? Our wonky words this week are: cost-sharing reductions.
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House Bill 730 Risks Higher Costs and Errors in Idaho’s SNAP Program
- What is House Bill 730? House Bill 730 proposes major changes to how Idaho administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While framed as