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The Healthy Montana Kids plan passed by Ballot Initiative 155 included a provision that $22 million would be transferred from the state treasury to a special account to finance the program annually. [8] After the Montana public passed the Initiative, the 2009 Montana legislature had to approve the funding expansion. [8]
Insure Montana won national awards, [5] and became a model for the premium assistance provisions of the Affordable Care Act. [6] Morrison also drafted Montana's Initiative 155 (I-155) and led the campaign that created Healthy Montana Kids, which instituted a broad reform and massive expansion of children's health coverage. [7]
Senator Ted Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) was intrigued by a children's health insurance plan in Massachusetts that had passed in 1996, and met with a Boston Medical Center pediatrics director and a Massachusetts state legislator to discuss the feasibility of a national initiative. [10]
Mountain Health CO-OP, formerly Montana Health CO-OP, is a nonprofit, member-led health insurance company that currently offers products in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.. The company was founded as a health insurance cooperative under a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for the purpose of introducing more competition into state insurance mark
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Montana became the only state with such a ban on employers. [205] On February 18, 2021, Gianforte signed a constitutional carry bill into law. [206] [207] [208] On March 16, 2021, Gianforte signed a bill changing Montana's system of choosing judges, giving the governor, with the state senate's approval, more control over the process. [209]
The former first lady was notably absent from President Jimmy Carter's state funeral service, leading Barack Obama and Donald Trump to be seated next to one another