Representative Dan McCay (Republican – Riverton) began his defense of legislation that would remove safety inspections on all vehicles in the state by telling the tongue-in-cheek sob story of how his 2005 Chevy Silverado failed a safety inspection in 2012…
In the last hours of Utah’s 45-day legislative session for 2016, a scandal has erupted involving two of the state’s most powerful policymakers and it involves a bill that is poised for passage before midnight on March 10. Both Republican…
Welcome to the UPC Show with Curtis Haring and Alex Cragun! Have a listen to Part 2 of our broadcast from the Salt Lake County GOP. We wonk out with Casey Jackson in the first half of the show as we…
Utah’s policy leaders were in Washington DC today, meeting with Health and Human Services Cabinet Secretary Sylvia Burwell for an hour and a half. They expressed their concerns over the waiver they seek to expand Medicaid and address Utah’s…
Late on Friday, the Utah House Minority made an effort to define Utah’s House members who were backing either Governor Herbert’s Medicaid expansion plan called “Healthy Utah,” or the lesser, “more efficient” proposal called “Utah Cares.” These ongoing negotiations represent Utah’s effort with the federal…
In back-to-back committee hearings to a packed room of more than 200 people that spilled over to a second hearing room, the Utah House Business and Labor committee advanced only their own version of expanded Medicaid. The outcome was expected by…
Lawmakers seemed cold to the news that Representative LaVar Christensen (Republican – Draper) introduced legislation that would protect religious liberties, but not members of the LGBT community – running counter to calls by leadership that compromise legislation should include protections…
On Tuesday, Senator Allan Christensen (Republican – North Ogden) defended the so called “Frail Utah” plan he is proposing as a counter to Obamacare. “For months now we have been considering various plans on Medicaid expansion since Obamacare was passed.…
Even with the numerous hours, days, and months that the Herbert administration has put into the expansion of healthcare services to those Utahns most in need, the Governor’s “Healthy Utah” plan was summarily rejected today by the Health Task Force…
The state’s Health Task Force met again Thursday to discuss options for the expansion of Medicaid. That meeting was the seventh in the interim session with another planned on December 18th. Dr. David Patton, the Director of the Utah Department of…
