BOISE — Boos were in the air at Cecil Andrus Park on a Wednesday evening in late October, but they weren’t the wails of ghosts and goblins.
Rather, they were the protests of participants at a “die-in” demonstration against Medicaid cuts and premium tax credit discontinuations through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this summer.
Die-ins are a type of protest in which demonstrators lie down and pretend to be dead, in order to bring awareness to something believed to have fatal impacts. This one, spearheaded by a group of activists known as the Appleseed Project, recruited 80 participants to symbolize an 80 Idahoans estimated to die as a result of insurance loss, based on calculations done by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Economic Committee…