According to the Daily Herald, a nonprofit health care advocacy group is protesting proposed changes to Utah's public health insurance programs that could limit health insurance coverage choices for low-income families.
The first change would allow people eligible for Utah's Premium Partnership for Health Insurance, a program that offers subsidies to low-income workers to help them purchase their employer's private insurance, to apply new subsidies to individual health plans if their job doesn't offer one.
The second change the Health Department is seeking would exclude children from the Utah Children's Health Insurance Plan -- a state-sponsored insurance program for kids in low-income families -- if their parents qualify for UPP.
The objective of the proposed change is to force families into private Utah health insurance plans if they can afford it.
The final change would extend the waiting period between when a person drops their private health insurance plan and when they are eligible for UPP help (from 90 days to six months).
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