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Utah House hears emotional appeals to raise Medicaid 'spend-down' threshold; bill faces fiscal hurdles
Summary
Representative Trisha Beck and other members urged passage of a bill to raise the Medicaid "spend-down" earnings threshold so struggling families can keep essential care; sponsor acknowledged a multi‑hundred‑thousand-dollar fiscal note and said the bill may stall in committee but is intended to prompt debate.
Representative Trisha Beck told the House a personal story in support of first substitute House Bill 117, describing how a Medicaid spend-down allowed her family to bring a newborn home from neonatal intensive care. "19 and a half years ago, I was brutally assaulted... By the time we finally had liquidated them down, we not only qualified for the spend down, but we also qualified for food stamps," Beck said, framing the…
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