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Senate Debate on Medicaid Expansion Option Ends with SB153 Failing to Advance
Summary
Senate considered SB153, an incremental Medicaid expansion sponsored by Sen. Christensen, citing a five-year cost estimate of about $16 million rising to $28 million; after extended debate about strategy with the House, the motion to advance the bill failed in a recorded vote.
Senate Bill 153, offered by Sen. Christensen as a lower-cost, incremental Medicaid expansion alternative to the governor’s Healthy Utah plan, failed to advance after extended floor debate on Feb. 13.
Christensen described SB153 as a Medicaid expansion targeted at people below 100 percent of poverty, the medically frail and uninsured, and said the bill would require a federal waiver to implement. He told the Senate the plan would cover “about a tenth…
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