Idaho’s Bottom Line Doesn’t Compute

You’ve heard of the proverbial bottom line. The one the potentates in Boise are so found of citing. Especially when it involves cutting school funding or health care for the vulnerable. The money simply is not there, they say. Sorry. But it’s the bottom line. Here’s the odd thing. This year, the good old bottom line has dissolved. It’s become a series of dots and dashes with lots of white space in between. How else can you explain Idaho lawmakers wasting $90 million? That’s how much the state would save if it accepted Obamacare’s offer to extend Medicaid to about 100,000 Idaho adults living near the poverty line. The feds will pay 100 percent of the costs for the first three years and never less than 90 percent thereafter/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Is this another example of ideology of legislative leaders trumping common sense when it comes to the welfare of Idaho’s poorest?