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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]
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Executive Order 14070, officially titled Continuing To Strengthen Americans' Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage, was signed on April 5, 2022, and is the 86th executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. The telos of the order is to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, high-quality health care.
(Reuters) -Montana's top court ruled on Wednesday the state's constitution guarantees a right to a stable climate and invalidates laws barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse ...
Youth climate activists’ landmark legal victory against the state of Montana last week could set the stage for wider recognition of rights to protection from climate change, with litigants ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.