House Speaker Vows to Block Vote On Governor’s Medicaid Expansion Plan

The same day the Senate approved the governor’s plan to expand Medicaid in Utah, the Utah House Speaker said he would prevent a vote on the bill (S.B. 164) in its current form.

House Speaker Greg Hughes (R) said Feb. 25 that Gov. Gary R. Herbert (R)’s Healthy Utah plan is “too costly, too unpredictable and too inflexible” to earn the support of Republicans in the House. Earlier in the day the Senate approved the bill 17-11 on third reading.

After S.B. 164 emerged from the Senate, Hughes sent it to the House Rules Committee, where it is likely to ...