Budget cuts are not healthy for Montana

In recent years, how we deliver and receive health care in Montana has been transformed. You may not see this if you don’t use a lot of medical care, but, it is happening every day in hospitals and doctors’ offices around our state. As a result, the quality of the medical care we receive, the safety of the patients we serve and the value of the health care dollars we spend are all much improved.

One major reason for this was legislative action in 2015. Until then, far too many Montanans went to work every day with the knowledge that access to health insurance and a doctor or nurse practitioner...