After years of failed attempts for large-scale Medicaid expansion through the Utah Legislature, health care advocates are turning to voters to give about 120,000 Utahns health care coverage.
Utah Decides Healthcare – a group that includes the Utah Senate’s only physician, Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Cottonwood Heights – is expected to file a proposed ballot initiative for Medicaid expansion in Utah to the lieutenant governor’s office at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
If Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox approves the initiative’s wording, the campaign must hold seven public hearings across the state and collect more than 113,000 signatures from registered voters to earn a spot on the November 2018 ballot.