Idaho Medical Welfare Programs — A problem too big to ignore. What government-run medical welfare means for Idaho. By Wayne Hoffman (09/21/25)

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There is no federal law that requires states to run a government medical welfare program, and if ever there was a time for Idaho to consider opting out of doing so, this is it.

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the reality is that Medicaid, in its present form, is not sustainable.

— Wayne Hoffman

We couldn’t agree more with Hoffman’s short essay. Idaho MUST divest itself from medical and other welfare programs, not just for the sake of taxpayers but also for the long-term “beneficiaries” of such programs, which turn those beneficiaries into lifelong dependent slaves.

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Summary (Grok ai, edited; image from article)

Idaho should exit Medicaid, a voluntary federal-state medical welfare program, as its escalating costs threaten to absorb all new state revenue, jeopardizing funds for education, roads, and other services.

Idaho currently has a $60 million shortfall and an anticipated $1 billion taxpayer burden from Medicaid within a $5.3 billion spending total. (Compare optional Medicaid with already too expensive, state constitution mandated public education, which costs $3.1 billion, mostly from state taxpayers.)

A strong budget committee must push for reforms such as eliminating the optional prescription drug benefit and the 2018 Medicaid expansion to ensure sustainability.

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ED NOTE Our own rant about government subsidized and dictated medical care follows…

Government / Pharma / bio medical complex sponsored healthcare, aside from not being an appropriate use of taxpayer funds, provides just two things:

• Expensive, poor quality healthcare.

• Worse health outcomes for patients.

Prescription drugs generally have harms that lead to more prescription drugs. Doctor visits lead to more doctor visits.

And what are the patients left with? Chronic disease and suffering.

And what are the taxpayers left with? More spending.

Many health promoting measures are well known, but suppressed or “debunked” mercilessly. These include:

• Lifestyle (e.g., quality sleep, food, exercise, sunshine, appropriate supplements)

• Personal hygiene and public works (e.g., clean water, prompt trash collection, and working sewers)

• Not polluting our bodies, air, water, food and soil with harmful injected, ingested, infested, infused, or inhaled substances

We could easily achieve much better health for little cost. But corrupt corporations, government programs, and agencies don’t want that: They want more patient dependency and ever bigger budgets and payments.

COVID countermeasures ripped off the band aid, revealing an ugly sore that will never heal with mainstream medicine paid for by ever-expanding government programs.

We could name dozens of heterodox doctors and organizations that exposed all of this (especially with respect to corruption, chronic disease, and unnecessary suffering), but we’ll start with just a few for those who are serious about achieving good health at VERY low cost. You may not agree with all of their opinions (our ours for that matter), but at least take a look (alphabetical order below).

• Association of American Physicians & Surgeons

• Dr. Mary Talley Bowden

• Children’s Health Defense

• Independent Medical Alliance

• Dr. Pierre Kory

• Sasha Latypova

• Dr. Joseph Mercola

• A Midwestern Doctor

• Dr. Kevin Stillwagon

Resources (include links to the above):

• Covid Essential Links (from our Substack): tinyurl.com/4x23jysr

• Resources (from our Substack): tinyurl.com/4h757avt

So please, Idaho and America, get off the government funded medical bandwagon! Not only will you be healthier; you’ll also be wealthier and so will the rest of our citizens.

Isn’t it time for decades of brainwashing to be replaced by independence, common sense, and the courage to try something different, something that actually can work?

Related:

• Idaho Medicaid Spending — Rachel Report: Thin Promises, Fat Bill. By Rachel Hazelip (09/19/25, article + video 01:08): tinyurl.com/58enzb7k