Deseret News

By: Wendy Leonard

Utah voters approved a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid, but Utah lawmakers said the plan was financially unsustainable and delivered a different plan, including four phases. The first two have been rejected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the grounds that the entire Affordable Care Act is under threat in the court system. “There is no state that has been working harder than all of you to extend coverage to people who need it,” said Joan Alker, director at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, who spoke at Wednesday’s conference in West Valley City. She said full expansion is the “best thing to do for children,” more of whom will become covered when their parents become eligible.

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