how do you structure the program, how do you pay for it? there is a lot of stuff in there. isn t that your job? that s right. it s our job to figure it out. isn t our job to say, great, we will figure out how to pay for this. and supporting things that if it were up to me i would probably not support. but i m trying to do my best to implement the voters in my district and get something going. get something going or stop it in its tracks? either way, he is a die hard free marketer, who isn t inclined to think that more government insurance is the answer to our health care problems. and the republican party tends to agree. but what do utah who want medicaid think about how it went down? i m making a house call to a voter who said yes to medicaid expansion. this is chris. luckily i caught him on a good day. but there have been plenty of bad ones. oh, my gosh!
subverting the will of the people, some would call it antidemocratic. i don t like that term. we re doing a slow build, identifying the most vulnerable populations and saying, can we afford that. not only can we afford that today. can we guarantee we will be able to afford that forever because when you start putting people on medicaid, this has to be a long-term commitment. but under obamacare, if you expand medicare, you get 90% covered by the federal government. so people say that s a very small number. that s a tiny amount of money until you look at what that does to our budgets. it s 10% added on to an already strained budget. even though the people voted for this, they don t really know what they re talking about? no. they understand the concept. what gets lost are these really complicated details, which are
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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
fully, which is what voters wanted in the first place. that means they will eventually get full expansion because it is part of a fall back plan the state built into its law. i m calling courtney to get the low down. they have to fully expand eventually, so we re closer. we re still encouraging our legislature and the governor to expand now and not wait any longer and pay more than we have to. so where does all this leave utah and what you guys are paying? utah right now is continuing to pay three times as much to cover less people, and the department of health reported that amount to be about 2$2.5 million extra per month. we are paying millions extra to not give people health care. we really are doing that in utah. like an early christmas present on december 23rd, the federal government approved full medicaid expansion in utah. but with prohibitive work requirements. now i m going to a state where