Montana Legislators Propose Limited Medicaid Coverage

Legislators in Montana have proposed a limited expansion of Medicaid that would cover 15,000 to 18,000 people earning less than 100 percent of the federal poverty level, the Independent Record reports, but the plan would not allow Montana to take a federal subsidy that would expand coverage to 70,000 more people. Democratic Governor Steve Bullock wants to accept the money. The federal government would pay the entire cost in 2016 and 95 percent of the cost in 2017,  but the state would have to pick up 10 percent of the expansion cost by 2020, the newspaper further reports.