After quickly determining that maybe 20 people were already dead, they turned to the urgent task of rescuing two people who were still clinging to life and, after many hours of intense but delicate efforts, succeeded in setting them free.
The joy and celebration felt at the success of that rescue is genuine and well earned. But it comes at the expense of ignoring what was lost.
As of Wednesday, the state of Utah’s decision to refuse the expansion of Medicaid under the original Affordable Care Act had cost Utah taxpayers, health care providers and patients a total of $1.