Experts from UHPP break down Utah health policy Eli Kirshbaum | Jan 18, 2021
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Utah had the highest increase in Medicaid enrollment in the entire country last year, according to Courtney Bullard, the education and collaborations director for the Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP). Stacey Stanford, UHPP’s health policy analyst, joined Bullard on a panel at UHPP’s annual Health Care Solutions for Utahns conference to discuss Utah’s evolving health policy and its response to COVID-19.
Stanford said there are 207,371 Utahns enrolled through the open marketplace in 2021 a number that’s been steadily increasing over the past three years. This signifies an increased need for health care because the state initially anticipated a decrease in open enrollment with the expansion of Medicaid in 2020, according to Stanford. It turns out the opposite was true.