It’s official. The Center for Medicaid Services (CMS), has rejected the Utah Legislature’s watered-down replacement of the full Medicaid expansion passed by the voters of this state last November. It’s now time for the Legislature to give Utahns what they voted for and proceed with full Medicaid expansion. No more delays. No more hoops.
People are literally dying, meanwhile, Utah taxpayer dollars – approximately $2.5 million a month – are being wasted because the Legislature has dragged its feet for entirely too long.
As a reminder: traditional Medicaid acts as a federal-state partnership with states paying 30 percent of the costs and the federal government picking up 70 percent.