Utah House Passes Reduced Medicaid Expansion With Backstop

The Utah House passed a reduced Medicaid expansion bill that would put full Medicaid expansion into effect if the state fails to secure federal approval of necessary waivers.

The bill (S.B. 96), approved Feb. on a 56-19 vote, was sent back to the Senate for consideration of House amendments. The House substantially revised the Senate bill, which proposed replacing a full, Affordable Care Act-style expansion approved by voters in November with an expansion that would cover fewer people at an initially higher cost.

The amended version passed by the House—the fourth substitute of the bill which has rapidly ...