Bill would repeal, replace Medicaid expansion initiative approved by Utah voters

SALT LAKE CITY — The voter-approved ballot initiative expanding Medicaid coverage to some 150,000 low-income Utahns would be repealed and replaced by a more limited plan under a bill being drafted for the 2019 Legislature.

"We're going to make the program work within the money the proposition provided," the bill's sponsor, Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, told the Deseret News Tuesday.

He said the funding provided by Proposition 3 falls short.

It raises the state's 4.7 percent sales tax rate 0.15 percent in April — money that's expected to bring $800 million in federal matching funds to the state for the full Medicaid expansion available under the Affordable Care Act.

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