In 2015, when the Legislature expanded Medicaid to cover another 100,000 Montanans, it sought to guarantee that all of us — our families, kids, friends and neighbors — would have access to health care. Expanding Medicaid was a significant bipartisan accomplishment: The bill was carried by a Republican senator, passed on a bipartisan vote, and signed by a Democratic governor. And no wonder: it reflected our common conviction that we all — particularly kids — should have access to medical care when we need it.
But now that guarantee of health care is being unwound, and hundreds of thousands of Montanans are being deprived of their Medicaid coverage, and access to health care.
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