Idaho Republicans really resent it when the citizens bypass their rigid obstruction to progress on healthcare.
BOISE, IDAHO - Legislation that will make it more difficult to get a voter initiative on the Idaho ballot will get a hearing.
Grow says the current system allows urban counties to have too much sway in voter initiatives and the proposed legislation will give rural counties a bigger voice.
The legislation will increase from 6 percent to 10 percent the number of registered voters that must sign petitions for a voter initiative to appear on a ballot.
Naturally Idaho Republicans see empowering rocks and dirt as being more important than respecting the will of the voters of Idaho.
By Sarah Jones
The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge to Medicaid expansion in the state, which voters approved at the ballot box in November. As the Idaho Statesman reported, the right-wing Idaho Freedom Foundation had sued to block expansion on the basis that it “gave too much power to the federal government and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.” The ruling is a victory for activists who helped pass Idaho’s Medicaid expansion, but other obstacles persist. In both Idaho and in Utah, where voters also passed Medicaid expansion by referendum last fall, the implementation plans proposed by Republican legislators would severely restrict the program’s reach.
Last Sunday, the Statesman reported that a group of 15 Republican legislators have met to discuss a wide range of restrictive waiver proposals, ranging from work requirements to lifetime coverage limits. They also intend to ask the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to approve the waivers before they proceed with legislation that implements expansion, which could create months-long delays.
Idaho (and Utah) Republicans are world class Cheapskates.