Inconvenient Location, Meeting Times Hamper Public Input On Utah’s Medicaid Expansion Plans, Health Experts Say

Before Micah Vorwaller headed to a meeting Monday on the state’s Medicaid expansion proposal, he picked up a woman who couldn’t get there without him. She wanted to share her thoughts on the plan, which would extend health coverage to about 6,000 of the state’s most needy childless adults — those who are chronically homeless or in need of mental health or drug addiction treatment. But Vorwaller, health policy analyst for the nonprofit Utah Health Policy Project, said public transit to the meeti... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>