Op-Ed: We Deserve the Truth About Medicaid Success

I’m tired of watching good Montana legislators get dragged by out-of-state groups that don’t know our communities and don’t care about our facts. Lately, these attacks have zeroed in on Representative Ken Walsh, criticizing him for supporting the HELP Act, Montana’s own Medicaid solution. The problem is simple: the attacks aren’t true, and they ignore what this program has actually done for our state.

Montana’s Medicaid solution has been in place for more than a decade, and the results speak for themselves. Despite the fearmongering that it would bankrupt the state, the opposite happened.

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