Governor Steve Bullock continued his tour of Montana hospitals and healthcare facilities on Wednesday, touting his Healthy Montana Plan to expand Medicaid.
The office of Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen announced yesterday that a computer glitch in Healthcare dot gov has led to an extension in signing up for mandatory health insurance.
By some trick of the light, Montana failed to include itself in the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, also know as Obamacare. Because of a single miscast vote many like Craig Gambrel find themselves in the "doughnut hole" of coverage...
Governor Bullock still has a chance to call a special session to get Medicaid expansion through in Montana. But a recent study out of Oregon shows that it will not help, not even a little.
Topics this week:
Pension Plan Select Committee.
Update on medicaid expansion.
What are dog and cat bills?
Dark Money regulations.
Insurance exchanges.
Senator Scott Sales and Senator Larry Jent joined me to talk about medicaid expansion in Montana. They each talked about their reasons for voting for and against the expansion. Listen and decide for yourself