Via Utah Policy, there's bad news for fans Utah health care reform this morning, folks, as these various Northern Utah media sources report that Governor Herbert's Health Utah medicaid expansion plan is likely dead in the water:
- The Utah Senate passes the Healthy Utah plan, but House leaders say the plan is dead [Utah Policy, Tribune, Deseret News].
- Sen. Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund says there's a good chance the 2015 session will end without lawmakers taking action on Medicaid expansion [Utah Policy].
Once again... The Trib's Pat Bagley "nails it":
Update 2/27/15 8:30 a.m.: Just like clockwork, House speaker Hughes is receiving serious blowback from our highly disappointed Governor Herbert, who's spent the past year and a half nailing down federal concessions to craft his Healthy Utah Plan:
- Gov. Herbert criticizes House decision on Medicaid plan
- Fight over Healthy Utah raises tension between Gov. Gary Herbert and House Speaker Greg Hughes
- Gov. Herbert increases pressure on House to hear Healthy Utah
- Amid disbelief, frustration, supporters of Healthy Utah try to revive plan
Our take? Healthy Utah ain't quite dead yet.
In that connection, here's an online petion for those WCF readers who'd like to roll up their sleeves. engage in active citizen action and throw in their own 2¢:
Comments, anyone?
8 comments:
Keep on voting Republican, people.
Maybe now I kind of wish Brad Dee would have been speaker. maybe
I wonder why Utah legislators have state paid health insurance. By their own definition they are part time employees(45 days per year). Part time workers at Utah run liquor stores are not offered health insurance.
In the end, I don’t think I can sum up my case better than one of my favorite LDS leaders, Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the First Presidency, did:
“Whether we are rich or poor, regardless where we live on this globe, we all need each other, for it is in sacrificing our time, talents, and resources that our spirits mature and become refined. This work of providing in the Lord’s way … cannot be neglected or set aside. It is central to our doctrine; it is the essence of our religion”.
Medicaid, Morality and Mormonism
I'll definitely be keeping my ear to the ground on this, Blue Sky. I'm not yet convinced that this is completely "over." Healthy Utah is way too important to be simply swept under the rug, by the malicious House "leader" (so-called), Greg Hughes. I'll keep everyone posted in re this issue, in other words.
Here's where you can go for starters, BTW, if you'd like to (politely) contact your own Utah House Rep, to express your dissatifaction with this latest stunning Utah House fiasco:
Utah House of Reprentatives Roster
Today I read how concerned our state is will the health and well being of our prison population. So much so they are willing to commit a half of a billion dollars to built a new "high tech" prison. Now, they are not concerned at all with the health of our working poor law abiding citizens even when it won't cost them a penny to provide them with health insurance. What is wrong with this picture?
JohnnyBGood,
The best way to get these pecker headed right wing buffoons to back off this idiotic idea to move the prison would be to get Obama to issue a statement that he supports moving it.
I wrote to Dixon Pitcher as soon as word of the slaughter came out.
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