Utah’s competing Medicaid expansion plans — one approved by lawmakers and another, more ambitious one pushed by a citizen initiative — may continue to be at odds beyond November, according to a report from The New York Times.
On Monday, the Times reported that President Donald Trump has ceased consideration of partial expansion plans in Utah and other states. And approval or denial of those plans is unlikely to resume until after this year’s midterm elections.
The Times also cited a confidential Trump Administration memorandum warning of “significant risk” that Utah voters would support the Utah Decides Healthcare initiative — or full expansion — if the state’s plan to impose work requirements and cover only a portion of Utah’s uninsured poor does not receive federal approval.