Utah’s top elected officials, and a very important personage from the Trump administration, are literally celebrating the fact that they have crafted a version of Medicaid expansion, made possible by the very Affordable Care Act they despise, that will serve a fraction of a fraction of the Utahns who are in desperate need of health care.
They tiny number Utah will reach with this plan are the ones who, if they aren’t cared for, will get sick and die on the street, discomforting those who want very badly to pretend nobody really suffers from a lack of access to health care, bothersome to those who see the homeless as something lowering the property values of the city’s next boom neighborhood.