West Virginia Watch, Charleston Gazette-Mail – West Virginia lawmakers on Monday walked back a measure that would have put more than 165,000 residents at risk of losing their health care coverage through Medicaid expansion.
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House Bill 3518 would have put in place a trigger so that if the federal government lowered the rate at which it pays for the Medicaid expansion program, West Virginia residents on the program would be disenrolled and the expansion program would be eliminated.
The House of Delegates Rules committee moved the bill to the inactive calendar Monday because of strong assurances from the federal government that it will not change its share of the cost, said Deputy House Speaker Del. Matthew Rohrbach, R-Cabell.
