Idaho doctor: Legislative inaction has killed 1,000 Idahoans

"Seventy-eight thousand Idahoans live in the gap and there is no dignity here," said Michelle Gluch, owner of Kid Co. and a master’s degree student at Boise State University. "My story is not unique. Most of my friends fall into this gap. We are waitresses, construction workers and adjunct professors."

The most rousing testimony came from physician Kenneth Krell, director of critical care at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, who said that legislative inaction was responsible for the deaths of 1,000 Idahoans. That led the chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, Lee Heider, R-Twin Falls, to threaten the removal of the next person to "charge the Senate unfavorably."

"I see those patients on a near-daily basis," Krell said of uninsured Idahoans who can’t afford preventative care. "Dying often, because the disease processes are now at an end state and have resulted in organ failure."

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By: Benton Alexander Smith

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