The Republican governor of Utah has announced an expansion of Medicaid, Huffington Post reports. Many Republican states have resisted the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare as too expensive. But Governor Gary Herbert "pointed to the 60,000 individuals in the state who will gain coverage under the state's expansion of the program, saying it's 'not fair' to leave them without a solution," Huffington Post further reports.
The Medicaid expansion was a key part of ensuring that lower-income Americans, including many working poor, would get health-care coverage under the new mandate that all Americans have health insurance. But the U.S. Supreme Court said that the expansion could not be mandated to the states by the federal government. That has left it up to the states on whether they'll accept federal dollars to implement the expansions.
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