Utah County senator backs down from plan to repeal Medicaid expansion proposition approved by voters

Prior to last week’s election, state Sen. Jacob Anderegg said he planned to sponsor legislation repealing Proposition 3 if voters approved the initiative fully expanding Medicaid in the state.The public vote is not “sacrosanct,” said Anderegg, R-Lehi, and Prop 3 would place the state on “the fast road to bankruptcy.”But voters did approve Prop 3 — by a margin of more than 6 percentage points according to unofficial results — and Anderegg said Thursday th