A House Finance Committee’s subdivision wants to hold a bill reauthorizing the state’s Medicaid expansion program for a year.
Meeting Tuesday, the committee Division III voted down party lines to retain Senate Bill 263 although the Senate passed the bill unanimously and the House passed it 193-166 last week with no limitation on the program’s length.
The Granite Advantage Health Care program provides health insurance to the state’s “working poor” who earn too much to qualify for regular Medicaid, but not enough to purchase private insurance.
The program, which was part of the Affordable Care Act, provides Medicaid coverage to those from 133 to 100 percent of the federal poverty level with the federal government paying 90 percent of the cost.
