Conflicting bills try to implement, stymie health care reform

Conflicting bills try to implement, stymie health care reform

Tim Leeds

While Republican legislators are working to overturn the federal health care reform law, the state office which handles securities and insurance is working on creating laws to implement the reforms.

State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, said in an interview earlier this week that legislators were briefed on the bills that would set Montana's implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the reform bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in March.

"This would lay th...