Edit: Time to close Medicaid gap

An Idaho Statesman editorial begins:

A gap is a space between two people or things, a hole where something is missing. A gap is a separation in space, an incomplete or deficient area. A gap is a lack of balance, a disparity, a wide difference in character or attitude, a break in continuity.

In Idaho health care, a gap is a shameful, negligent and painful number: 78,000 uninsured citizens — that’s enough people to occupy the combined populations of Eagle and Pocatello. That 78,000 represents fellow citizens too poor to access health care subsidies through the Your Health Idaho Exchange, but who make too much to qualify for Medicaid coverage. The Statesman has been chronicling their plight: They are mostly working poor, many with annual income ranges between $11,000 and roughly $16,000 — that second number is in line with a person making the $7.25 hourly minimum wage who works 40 hours per week. More here.