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Legislative bill to supplant Prop. 3 rolls back all Medicaid expansion in Utah if the state can't get waivers from the Trump administration

The scaled-back Medicaid expansion plan from lawmakers to supplant Prop. 3 depends wholly on the state securing waivers from the Trump administration. If they can't get those waivers, then all Medicaid eligibility granted from the expansion efforts would be taken away.

Tucked away inside the most recent public version of SB96 is a provision stating if the state cannot get the requested waivers from the Trump administration, then the Utah Department of Health is required to "roll back all changes in Medicaid eligibility effectuated by a Medicaid expansion no later than the next July 1 after the day on which the department is no longer able to implement" expanding Medicaid coverage to Utahns who earn below 95% of the federal poverty level.

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