George Pyle: Even this administration wouldn’t give Utah a permit to do illegal things

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah faith leaders gather at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City on Wed. Oct. 3, 2018, to make a joint statement in support of Prop 3, which would expand Medicaid in Utah.Utah’s elected rulers were determined not just to ignore -- but to spite -- the will of the voters who last year passed the Medicaid-expanding Proposition 3.

So they passed Senate Bill 96, a measure to set aside the humane and fiscally responsible ballot initiative and replace it with a cruel and wasteful measure that would spend a lot more money to provide health care access to many fewer people.

Baked into SB96 was the assumption that the sitting federal…