AARP Idaho

Senate Committee Advances Disastrous Idaho Health Freedom Act

Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 3rd, 2010

In a move that could have dire effects on health care in Idaho, the Senate State Affairs Committee voted yesterday to bring the Idaho Health Care Freedom Act (House Bill 391) one step closer to becoming law. Amidst grave concerns from both Senators and AARP, the legislation, which takes aim at a non-existent federal health care law, is now on track to come before the full Senate for a vote in the coming days.

AARP says the untried, unproven and vague legislation could wreak havoc on the state's health care system - jeopardizing over $1.6 billion in federal matching funds for health care programs and possibly costing the state thousands of health care jobs. While the...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2010-03-03)

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