SALT LAKE CITY — Doctors and hospitals providing emergency medical care to illegal immigrants would be able to seek reimbursement under a bill a House committee approved Wednesday.
HB165, sponsored by Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo, would create an account in the Utah Department of Health to provide the payments, which legislative fiscal analysts estimate at $26.3 million a year.
"In passing this out favorably we're saying somehow we're finding a way to pay for this and I, in good conscience, can't do that," Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake, told the House Health and Human Services Committee
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