Commentary: Utah should make it easier for the disabled to get care

Two years ago the Utah Legislature passed the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, designed to keep a person from entering or returning to jail or prison by providing him or her with community-based mental health and/or substance use treatment. More recently, Operation Rio Grande aims to provide the same kind of treatment to homeless individuals with similar needs.Both projects rely on hoped-for funding from a yet-to-be-approved small-scale expansion of Medicaid. While it wasn’t perfect, most