By skyforbes 
Media has not gone beyond a mention of a vote from a Utah Republican lawmaker that opposed all of the legislators of his party in the Utah Senate, over a much-publicized Medicaid expansion bill. GOP Utah Sen. Todd Weiler joined six Democrats, and opposed 22 Republicans (none voted with him), in his casting of lots against a bill numbered 3SB96. Weiler said after the Senate’s second-reading vote (he voted “nay” there, too) that he gave a heads-up about his vote to his superiors at least in Senate leadership. But Weiler said he voted as he did in a state perceived as largely authoritarian because “the voters in (his) district passed Proposition 3,” a Medicaid expansion law Utahns overall also approved this past election.
“I am a little bit cautious about undermining the will of the voters when it comes to the ACA,” Weiler told Beehive Blunders, referring to the Affordable Care Act, which led to the Prop. 3 law. “I don’t think there’s any necessary urgency to (change the law) right now.”
Weiler believes voters “understood they were voting for expansion.”
“I think they understood they were voting for a partial tax increase,” Weiler said. “Yes, while the tax increase doesn’t fund us through forever, it would fund us…