Boise protest at Capitol highlights concerns over federal healthcare policy shift

BOISE, Idaho — In downtown Boise, demonstrators gathered outside the Idaho State Capitol on Wednesday night to protest federal healthcare changes included in the recently passed 2025 tax bill. Protesters say the cuts will strip health coverage from tens of thousands of Idaho residents.

About 70 people laid still in Cecil D. Andrus Park in what organizers called a “die-in,” symbolizing Idahoans, they say, who could die each year without access to health care.

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Protesters argue that up to 67,000 people may lose coverage because of reductions to Medicaid and the loss of Affordable Care Act tax credits