The mission of the Idaho Primary Care Association, a network of community health centers, is to achieve access to affordable, quality healthcare for all.

May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

Asthma and allergies peak in May, as many Americans can attest, experiencing symptoms such as sneezing, itchy eyes, wheezing, and a runny nose.  And experts are predicting a particularly long and tough allergy season for 2013. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America provides information and resources that can be used to educate patients, family, friends and co-workers about ways to address symptoms this season. Visit the AAFA website to learn more. 

Idaho's Community Health Centers Support Medicaid Expansion

Optional Medicaid expansion is the right medicine for Idaho’s economic health and the health of its citizens. Idaho’s estimated financial benefits* in the first 10 years include:

• Save $84.6 million in state general funds
• Create tax revenues of $616 million
• Provide health care coverage for 104,200 the hard working, low income citizens of Idaho
• Implement a transformed system of health care delivery that focuses  on personal accountability with a goal of improved health status for all Idaho individuals, families, communities and workers.

For information and to join the coalition, visit The Right Medicine for Idaho.

View the report from Governor Otter’s workgroup on Medicaid expansion.

Idaho Medicaid Expansion Articles and Editorials

Editorial by Ted Epperly, MD, Program Director and CEO, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Idaho Statesman, January 6, 2013.

Editorial by Stephen Weeg, former executive director of Health West, Idaho State Journal, January 13, 2013.

Editorial by William Woodhouse, MD, Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency at Idaho State University, Idaho State Journal, January 23, 2013.

Reader's View by William Woodhouse, MD, Idaho Statesman, March 16, 2013

Editorial by Corey Taule, Idaho Falls Post Register, January 24, 2013.

"Health Care Groups Support Medicaid Expansion," Mike Butts, Idaho Press Tribune, January 23, 2013.

*Estimates based on analyses reported in Idaho Workgroup on Medicaid Expansion: An Evaluation of the Possible Expansion of Comprehensive Healthcare Services to Low-income Idahoans, December 3, 2012.