{"id":15752,"date":"2013-02-13T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=15752"},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T21:05:15","slug":"state-based-health-exchange-wins-conditional-support-from-16-house-freshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/13\/state-based-health-exchange-wins-conditional-support-from-16-house-freshman\/","title":{"rendered":"State-Based Health Exchange Wins Conditional Support From 16 House Freshman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Idaho State Legislature<\/p>

At 31, Rep. Malek is the second-youngest member of the Idaho Legislature.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sixteen Republican House members, all of them freshmen, this morning announced their support <\/a>for a bill to create a state-based health insurance exchange. That bill, promoted by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and currently in the Senate<\/a>, is one of the most controversial of the 2013 session.<\/p>\n

The first-year lawmakers constitute a key block of support, says the Idaho Statesman<\/em>‘s Dan Popkey<\/a>. The Spokesman-Review’s<\/em> Betsy Russel reports<\/a> they may give the exchange plan the votes it needs to pass in the Idaho House. However, the lawmakers’ support of Otter’s exchange bill is contingent on the passage of a companion measure that was introduced in the House Health and Welfare Committee this morning.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by freshman Rep. Luke Malek (R-Coeur d’Alene), that bill would increase the Legislature’s oversight of a state-based exchange.\u00a0 Among other things, the “trailer” bill would add two non-voting members to the board that oversees the exchange, one House member and one Senate member, to be appointed by the leaders of both chambers.<\/p>\n

It would also require that board meetings be public and televised or live-streamed, and mandate that the board report policy and fee changes to relevant Idaho House and Senate committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixteen Republican House members, all of them freshmen, this morning announced their support for a bill to create a state-based health insurance exchange. That bill, promoted by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and currently in the Senate, is one of the most controversial of the 2013 session. The first-year lawmakers constitute a key block of support, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":15753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210,119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}