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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]
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
Logo of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. [1]
Logan Health Medical Center is a 622-bed [1] non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Kalispell, Montana, servicing the northern Montana region. Formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center , the hospital is owned by Logan Health and is the flagship hospital of the system.
President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010, in the East Room before a select audience of nearly 300 people. He stated that the health reform effort, designed after a long and acrimonious debate facing fierce opposition in the Congress to expand health insurance coverage, was based on "the core principle that everybody should have some basic security ...
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]
Wyden argued that "The Healthy Americans Act would guarantee every American universal, affordable, comprehensive, portable, high-quality, private health coverage that is as good or better than Members of Congress have today. The Act includes tough cost containment measures — and would save Americans $1.45 trillion over the next decade." [6]
Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE) Parent institution: Montana State University: Established: September 15, 2014: Mission: To reduce significant health disparities in Native and rural communities through community-based participatory research (CBPR) that is considerate of and consistent with their cultural beliefs.