Edit: House GOP Picks On Vulnerable

OK, here we go. The Idaho Legislature’s assault on Medicaid is in full swing. On Monday, the House Health and Welfare Committee voted 8-2 along party lines to cut more than $34 million from the state’s Medicaid program. If passed and signed by the governor, the savings would erase about one-third of the estimated $92 million deficit in the state’s 2012 budget. The cuts come at the expense of those who can least afford it by suspending or reducing “programs and treatment for the elderly and adults with severe mental illness and other disabilities,” according to an Associated Press story. We have to wonder if Republicans on the committee seriously considered the proposal or, in a move to save time and energy, went to the default position of cutting anything that’s designed to help the most vulnerable in our society?/ Murf Raquet , Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here .

Question: Do you think the Republicans seriously considered the impact of their cuts on the most vulnerable Idahoans are deferred to their default position of cutting irregardless to balance the budget?