with that? right. the legislature didn t like it. i m paraphrasing a little bit. but the legislature said that s our job. we want to go in there and change this plan. let us handle democracy, people. yeah. the republican party is not shy about saying this. they don t believe the government should be involved in providing health care to anyone. they ignored the ballot proposition and instead passed their own limited version of medicaid expansion. under the republican law, about 60,000 fewer people would qualify for medicaid. and there is a catch. utah still wants the federal government to pay for 90% of its expansion, even though that s only provided to states that expand fully. so utah needs to ask the trump administration for special permission to get full funding. it is incredible to see this is what happens when citizens take action, that they re struck