H633 expands Medicaid to offer up to 12 months of postpartum coverage.
The Senate passed H633 on March 19, 2024, by a vote of 24 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the nays because neither health care nor social welfare is the legitimate object of government. Medicaid, like other so-called ‘entitlement programs, discriminatorily and unjustly provides “eligible” low-income persons, who have little or no tax liability, at the expense of other hard-working citizens. It is financed in large part by immoral and anti-constitutional forms of taxation (e.g., personal or corporate income taxes) that take from people the wages they have rightfully earned. Idaho should reject big government and reckless, out-of-control spending. Medicaid is an ever-expanding and unsustainable Federal-State program that is not authorized under Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.