When gops come to their senses

Speaker of Idaho House considers legislation to require insurance

The speaker of the state House of Representatives is mulling a proposal that could require businesses to provide employees with insurance, or reimburse Idaho for publicly funded health care costs.

Medicaid costs have grown tenfold since 1990, and now account for about 14 percent of state spending.

To try to reverse the trend, Rep. Bruce Newcomb, R-Burley, is proposing that employers buy health insurance for their workers, or pay the state to offset Medicaid costs.

Newcomb's target: Wal-Mart stores.

I wonder what will happen if this passes- will the gop Congress, at the insistence of the US Chamber of Commerce, step in to force the state of Idaho to change its law? The gops seem readily willing to trample on states' rights anytime they do something against the gop agenda. (See here, here, and here for a few of the many examples.)