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Letter: Utah needs a Medicaid escape plan

Where has Proposition 3, the infamous ballot initiative to expand health care that Utahns voted in favor of last November, gone?

Well, as usual, lawmakers decided that they knew better than their constituents. As the curtains were closing on the 2019 legislative session, our lawmakers underhandedly passed a different version of Medicaid than chosen by the people. Now we are paying for a version of Medicaid that covers less people but is more expensive.

Currently as a state we are stuck in a bad game of tennis — flinging waivers back and forth with the federal government as our opponent.