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Advocates push for Medicaid expansion, but House plan would leave many without

Health care • Bare-bones plan with best chance to pass would cover 16,000 of poorest uninsured.

This Feb. 25, 2015 file photo shows Taylorsville Republican Rep. Jim Dunnigan voting on the house floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. A Utah doctors' group is speaking out against lawmakers' plan to have doctors, hospitals and others pay most of the cost of expanding the state's Medicaid rolls. Herbert and Republican legislative leaders say doctors and other practitioners would benefit from having more patients covered by Medicaid and they should help pay the $78 million price tag to insure more of Utah's poor. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

This Feb. 25, 2015 file photo shows Taylorsville Republican Rep. Jim Dunnigan voting on the house floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. A Utah doctors' group is speaking out against lawmakers' plan to have doctors, hospitals and others pay most of the cost of expanding the state's Medicaid rolls. Herbert and Republican legislative leaders say doctors and other practitioners would benefit from having more patients covered by Medicaid and they should help pay the $78 million price tag to insure more of Utah's poor. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)