Democrats' Medicaid Expansion bill introduced

Medicaid Expansion would become permanent and there would be no work requirements, according to a bill, HB 425,  introduced by Rep. Mary Caferro, D-Helena. The bill would raise about $15 million in fees on hospital beds and outpatient revenue and it asks the Legislature to appropriate $6 million to fund the state’s innovative HELP-link work training program, a voluntary program unlike the language in the Republican bill that would mandate work or "community engagement."

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