In the Daily Kos, Joan McCarter targets the unwillingness by the Republican Legislature and Republican Gov. Butch Otter to address the insurance gap that some say is killing the state's working poor:

Idaho's Republican legislature ended a long and typically insane session this week having done—and not done—two notable things. First, it overthrew a decades-long concealed weapons permit system that no one had argued was broken to allow permitless concealed carry by anyone 21 or older. Bully for them. The truly egregious failure, however, was continuing to allow 78,000 people in the state who fall in the Medicaid gap to stay there. More here.