Legislature delivers on low expectations

Look not to Charles Dickens to describe Idaho’s just-adjourned legislative session. These were neither the best of times nor the worst. Look instead to Thomas Hobbes. This was “nasty, brutish and short.” Short? Certainly.The session concluded just in time to observe Good Friday. What would you call that? Ironic? For the 78,000 working poor Idahoans who can’t afford health insurance, however, it was brutish. Facing the moral challenge of their era, lawmakers left Boise for the fourth year unwilling extend to their citizens the Medicaid coverage now in effect in 32 states and the District of Columbia/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .