Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the Affordable Care Act decision in 2014:“We look to the States to defend their prerogatives by adopting the simple expedient of not yielding to federal blandishments when they do not want to embrace federal policies as their own.”Blandishment:1. A flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something.Idaho gets federal matching money for state programs all the time. And, of course, federal requirements come with them. About a third of the total Idaho budget is federal dollars.I have been working for years to get my legislative colleagues to consider the proposition to change Medicaid eligibility, so 78,000 working, poor Idahoans could get health insurance coverage. There has been little legislative interest in this solution; I struggle to understand why. I learned something from a colleague last session.We have seen CAT fund costs go down from strong …
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Honestly, it’s time to close the Medicaid gap