Think Progress

January 28, 2019

By: Amanda Michelle Gomez

The Utah state legislature returns to work on Monday and GOP lawmakers are already proposing multiple bills that hobble a successful ballot measure to expand health care to more low-income residents. Utah State Sen. Allen Christensen’s (R) bill would prevent the ballot initiative — “Proposition 3,” which was approved in November and allowed for a clean Medicaid expansion — from going into effect. It would do so if the federal government approves a waiver submitted by the state in July to impose a per capita cap on federal reimbursement for more enrollment restrictions.

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“It’s been one excuse after another for those who do not want to expand the Medicaid program,” said Joan Alker, the executive director of Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families.

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