Lawmakers get earful on Medicaid expansion plan

Low-income Utahns pleaded with lawmakers Tuesday to pass legislation that they said could enable them to get urgent treatment for illnesses, but the proposal met with a barrage of criticism from doctors and other health providers who said taxing them to pay for the health care is unfair and damaging.Members of the Health Reform Task Force heard hours of testimony about the recently unveiled Utah Access Plus proposal, the first and perhaps only hearing on the plan hammered out in months of negoti