Trib: Are GOP solons changing tune?

In the Lewiston Tribune this morning, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase wonders whether Idaho GOP legislative leaders are really changing their tune on the Medicaid gap:

How many times have you heard the phrase: “This time it’s different”? Just about the time your level of skepticism is rising, right? Which brings us to the Idaho’s Republican legislative leadership’s apparent attempts to help Idaho’s “Medicaid gap” population. Those are the 78,000 adults living at or below the federal poverty line who were left out in the cold. They make too little to qualify for subsidized private health insurance under Obamacare. And the Legislature refused to accept Obamacare’s offer to provide Medicaid benefits to them at little or no cost to the state. For the first three years of Medicaid expansion, the feds would pay 100 percent of the costs and no less than 90 percent thereafter. More here.

Question: Do you really think Republican legislators will approve anything to address the Medicaid gap?