A budget-cutting situation in Idaho may be reversing legislation that could keep health insurance away from 19-34-year-old state residents
According to a statement released by Jim Wordelman, the state director for AARP Idaho, the Health Freedom Act that was recently passed by the House State Affairs Committee could raise questions and concerns for students regarding their health insurance plans.
The discrepancy leading to the confusion involves requirements for students to register for a health care plan. The act, which Wordelman said would fight health care reform as a means for Governor Butch Otter to cut the budget, would directly contradict earlier legislation that required students to carry a health care plan.
"In Idaho, as Governor Otter and our state lawmakers prepare to make sweeping cuts to our state budget – including cuts to Medicaid and programs and services that provide health care in communities to hundreds of thousands of people – they also stand to make the health care crisis worse for people across the state," Wordelman wrote.
He added that national healthcare reform could stand to benefit Idaho’s citizens by curtailing the budget cuts that were leading to the confusing legislation while also helping to keep health care premiums form rising.
If the AARP’s worries turn out to be a reality, a large segment of the younger population may have trouble with their health insurance which could get in the way of paying for the essential care they may need in the event of an emergency. For those who lack appropriate health insurance coverage for a medical expense, payday loans may be a good way to afford such expenses.
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