Fiscal responsibility sounds responsible until we ask who is actually being required to practice it. Federal and Idaho policy changes are reducing Medicaid and SNAP spending, increasing eligibility and compliance requirements, and shifting more costs onto low income households, while other policies deliver substantial financial gains higher up the income ladder. As a public health educator and mother to disabled children who will need lifelong care, I wanted to look beyond the political slogans and follow the numbers. What I found raises a harder question than whether government is saving money. Is it actually reducing costs, or simply moving them onto the people least able to absorb them? … More The People Paying for Fiscal Responsibility