BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has applied for millions of dollars in federal funding to establish a health insurance exchange.
But plans to spend the money will still need approval from the Republican-dominated Idaho Legislature, where lawmaker hatred of the 2010 health care overhaul doomed a previous effort to allocate federal money toward helping set up a statewide exchange.
States must establish insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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The Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee to discuss Idaho's exchange plans on Thursday, about a week after the governor announced the state will seek federal cash to implement the program because dismissing the money could allow the federal government to impose a plan on Idaho.
But some lawmakers are already vowing to fight plans to spend the money.
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