Health Care

Utah Thrives – Candidates Respond to the Utah Priorities Project Voter Survey

Written by: Dan Bammes

Healthcare topped the list of issues identified by voters in the 2016 Utah Priorities Project survey. That gave us a chance to ask four candidates for governor of Utah what they thought of the issue and what the state may be doing right – or wrong – to address it. The candidates joined more than two hundred Utah Foundation supporters for a luncheon on March 24th and responded to the statewide survey of voters that … Continued

Utah’s Health Care Conversation Moves Ahead

Written by: Dan Bammes

Those who attended Utah Foundation’s Across the Spectrum event on April 2nd got a different kind of legislative wrapup, including a discussion of the most important thing the legislature didn’t do – act on Governor Gary Herbert’s proposal to provide health care to Utahns who don’t qualify for Medicaid or for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Healthy Utah was passed in the Utah Senate, but had so little support among Republicans in the House … Continued