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  • Medicaid expansion is not a Montana-made solution

    Linda Prescott

    Last month, Gov. Steve Bullock began his pitch to expand Medicaid in our state, adding 70,000 Montanans to a failing federal program. Despite attempts to ignore the facts, it remains that Medicaid is a program that has serious solvency issues and ongoing problems with fraud and abuse. It does not address the need for additional providers. Medicaid reimbursement to doctors and hospitals is lower than private insurance, causing "cost-shifting" on a national scale. This is not "free money" — it is taxpayer money. Any jobs create...