In 2017, Reclaim Idaho spearheaded the campaign to put Medicaid Expansion on the ballot. In 2018, the voters of Idaho enacted the new program with 61% of the vote. To date over 100,000 Idahoans have enrolled in the program. Do you qualify? Click here to apply.

Our work on Medicaid Expansion was chronicled in books, magazine articles, tv specials, and even an independently produced full-length documentary. Here are a few links:

Film/Television:

• Reclaim Idaho, a documentary by independent filmmakers Laura Wing-Kamoosi and Jim Kamoosi

• VICE News Tonight, 2018 Midterm Elections Special (nominated for an Emmy Award for “Outstanding News Special”)

• NBC News with Garrett Haake, “Government expansion of health care is on the ballot in the most unlikely places”

Books:

• “Aboard Idaho’s Medicaid Express,” a chapter in David Daley’s Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy

• “What Will Work,” a chapter in Timothy Faust’s Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

Articles:

• “'I did it because everybody else needed it': Reclaim volunteer reflects on Medicaid campaign,” Post Register

• “These Volunteers are Battling Idaho’s Government to Expand Medicaid” by Anne Helen Peterson, Buzzfeed

• “The Ballot Revolt to Bring Medicaid Expansion to Trump Country” by Paul Demko, Politico