Medicaid works — let’s keep it that way
By Hillarie Hagen
Reader Contributor
Idaho Medicaid helps our kids grow into healthy adults. It also helps adults stay healthy so they can take care of their families. Idahoans know …
Tagged: Idaho healthcare
Idaho’s nursing shortage: A crisis we can’t afford to ignore
By Robert Vande Merwe
Reader Contributor
Idaho’s health care system faces a serious challenge, and it’s not just about doctors. The entire health care workforce is stretched thin. This workforce …
Making it to the manger
By Becca Renk Foster
Reader Contributor
It wasn’t quite a manger, but after I was born, my parents wrapped me in swaddling clothes and laid me in a dresser drawer …
Medicaid expansion on the horizon, Your Health Idaho spreads the word on open enrollment
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Open enrollment for the Your Health Idaho insurance marketplace began Nov. 1 and will close Monday, Dec. 16. In the meantime, officials including Executive Director …
Practical solutions from nurse practitioners
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nurse practitioners Jane Hoover and Cynthia Dalsing traveled to Washington, D.C., last month for the 2018 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Health Policy Conference. There, …
Idaho officials detail health plan
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
State officials are breaking down the details of a Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s health care plan designed to help residents in the so-called Medicaid gap.…
Reclaim Idaho launches ballot initiative in Sandpoint this weekend
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Local grassroots political movement Reclaim Idaho is going back to its roots this weekend with a number of events in Sandpoint.
The return to …
Insurance enrollment open through Dec. 15
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
There may be uncertainty from Washington, D.C., surrounding health care, but Your Health Idaho isn’t going anywhere.
The state insurance marketplace, established following the passage …
Reclaim Idaho proposes Medicaid Expansion on 2018 ballot
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Luke Mayville, co-founder of the grassroots political movement Reclaim Idaho, announced Tuesday that the group has officially filed a proposal to put Medicaid Expansion …
Reclaim Idaho: A movement finds footing in Sandpoint
Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
In her July 20 lecture as part of a Reclaim Idaho Call to Action at the Panida, Sandpoint-born Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson reflected on …
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Live Music, the Summer Sampler, the Art Party, Monarch Grind, the Sandpoint Renaissance Faire, and more! See the full list of events in the 