On January 5, 2018, Governor C.L. ‘Butch’ Otter issued an executive order directing the Idaho Department of Insurance (DOI) to use flexibility to create guidelines for Idaho health insurers to offer health insurance at lower cost. In response to the executive order and the DOI’s new guidelines, Blue Cross of Idaho is introducing Freedom Blue, five new individual health insurance plans to meet the needs of the estimated 110,000 middle-class uninsured Idahoans. ... |