Montana Considers Medicaid Expansion for 70,000

Montana Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, has asked legislators once again to expand health coverage for 70,000 low-income Montanans, the Independent Record reports: "Legislative Republicans rejected a Medicaid-expansion proposal in 2013, arguing the state couldn’t afford it and that they didn’t want to implement part of 'Obamacare,' the 2010 federal health-care law. Bullock ... said his new plan is a unique proposal for expanding Medicaid. It would use federal money to contract with a private administrator to process claims and run a network of physicians, hospitals and other providers to serve the newly covered population, he said."