Backers of the Medicaid expansion bill in the Nebraska legislature were unable to get enough votes to break a filibuster last week. The expansion was a compromise effort to extend health care coverage to fifty four thousand low income people.

Senator Tyson Larson of O’Neill says people in his district did not support the expansion…

Larson says even though the bill did not come up for a direct vote, he doesn’t think the result would have been different…

 

As for the fifty four thousand without health care coverage? Larson says it is a tough decision…