Utah OKS plan to reduce expansion of Medicaid
Utah passed changes to a voterapproved Medicaid expansion
Monday, cutting the number of people covered nearly in half and adding work requirements that the Trump administration is expected to approve.
Republican Gov.
Gary Herbert signed the plan hours after it cleared a final vote in the Republican-led Legislature, calling it both “humane and sustainable.”
The plan has drawn protest from advocates who say the changes go further than any of the four other conservativeleaning states where voters expanded Medicaid after state lawmakers refused.
Lawmakers’ plan would extend Medicaid coverage to an additional 80,000 people, just over half of those that would have been covered under the ballot measure that voters passed in November, Republican Sen. Dan Hemmert said.