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House Speaker Becky Lockhart's animus against embracing full federal funding of Medicaid expansion for Utah's poor and uninsured qualifies her to replace the late Leona Helmsley as America's new " Queen of Mean" ("Herbert calls House Medicaid plan 'illogical,'" Tribune, Feb. 20).

Steve Barrett

Salt Lake City