Utah Legislators Want to Get Rid of a Law Voters Just Approved at the Ballot Box, So Utahns Held a Rally at the Utah State Capitol to Keep It

During a rally to preserve a law voted on by Utahns this past election, Paul Gibbs asked a fellow healthcare advocate to bring his little child to the front. Gibbs’ child, he explained, is alive because of Medicaid. Because the federal health care system allowed Gibbs to be alive.

Gibbs was just one of many advocates who spoke at the Utah state capitol Jan. 28 in favor of the legislature preserving Utah’s Medicaid-expansion law that passed when Utah voters approved Proposition 3 in the election two-and-a-half months ago. That’s because Utah lawmakers are seeking to rewrite it — the Utah Senate passed a bill Feb. 4 that would do it. Jan. 28 was the first day of the 2019 Utah legislative session.

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“I see what (Utahns) can do when they come together as one voice and make an informed and compassionate choice against the enemies of humanity: poverty, illness and death,” Paul Gibbs said at a rally to keep the Proposition 3 law. (Paul Gibbs via Salt Lake Community College)

“The people of Utah made the choice to care for their fellow human beings. And when any legislator claims that those voters did not understand … that not only insults their intelligence, it insults and denies their basic goodness and humanity and I will not stand for that. Because I love and believe in the people of Utah,” Gibbs said. “I have seen what they can do when they come together as one voice and make an…