In 2001, Idaho received HRSA SPG funds to research the uninsured and the health care environment in Idaho and strategies to provide access to affordable health insurance. The Idaho State Planning Grant team (ISPG) explored other state practices and settled on a public-private partnership model to expand insurance, signing into law the Idaho Health Insurance Access Card Act in 2003.

In 2005, Idaho received a HRSA pilot planning project grant to continue work and progress achieved with SPG funds. Idaho will evaluate and expand coverage via the premium assistance program, the Access to Health Insurance program. In addition, Idaho will strengthen participation of county providers in planning and designing the County Medical Care pilot, a primary care program for uninsured adults. Finally, Idaho will use the grant funds to develop a plan for expanding coverage to low-income, uninsured women based on Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies - a family planning expansion.

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Interim Report, October 2001

Final Report, March 2002

Second Addendum to Final Report, August 2004

Idaho State Planning Grant, Idahoans Without Health Insurance: A Data Report, October 2001.

Strategic Report Submitted to the Governor by the Steering Committee of the Idaho State Planning Grant, February 2002

Stroebel, H. and G. Gray. "Policy Considerations in Privatization of CHIP: Report to the Idaho CHIP Task Force," Center for Health Policy, Boise State University, September 2002.

Stroebel, H. et al. "Health Insurance Affordability: Consumer Preferences in Cost Sharing," Center for Health Policy, Boise State University, September 2002.

Stroebel, H. "Medical Indigency in Idaho: An Analysis of County Indigency and State Catastrophic Health Care Services," Center for Health Policy, Boise State University, February 2003.

Economic Analysis of the Effects of Extending Insurance Benefits to Idaho's Uninsured Population

Idaho State Planning Grant on the Uninsured: Data and Policy work Group Findings, September 2001

Stroebel, H. "Key Findings from Policy Research for the Idaho State Planning Grant on the Uninsured," Center for Health Policy, Boise State University.