Utah’s Medicaid population is a smaller proportion of the population than nearly every other state, according to data from multiple sources.
People walk past the Take Care Utah booth, a Utah Health Policy Project program that helps Utahns access and naviagate the health care system, at the Latinx/Hispanic Health and Heritage Festival in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.
There probably won’t be a clear picture of where the state stands until next year, Slonaker said, but he thinks Utah will probably “still be in the lower ranks.”Utah’s flourishing economy is likely part of why available data shows the rate is lower because people don’t need to lean on Medicaid as much, Slonaker said.
Slonaker has seen a pivot in the last decade to lawmakers “accepting some programs as a vehicle forevermore to make sure underserved, low-income folks have access” to health care. Generally, though, he thinks there is a stigma around Medicaid. And Butler said there is a “deep misunderstanding” about health insurance risk pools and that culture wars impact how Utah is able to serve its most vulnerable citizens.
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