Full Funding for Utah's Partial Medicaid Expansion? Nope.

Trump administration officials have reportedly decided against approving Utah's request, signaling that any others like it will meet a similar fate.

The federal government is expected to reject Utah's request for full federal funding of its partial Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

White House advisers had argued it would be illogical for the Trump administration to authorize the funding under the ACA while it urged federal courts to overturn the entire law, as The Washington Post's Yasmeen Abutaleb reported Friday, citing unnamed senior officials.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's office learned Friday night that the request would be rejected, as the Deseret News' Ashley Imlay reported Saturday. The rationale cited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was that fully funding the partial expansion "would invite continued reliance on a broken and unsustainable Obamacare system," Imlay reported.

Utah voters approved a ballot measure last fall to expand the state's Medicaid program to cover people who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level, as the ACA allows. But state leaders asked CMS to approve an expansion that would cover only those who earn up to 100% of the federal poverty level.