2024 MT Governor's race: on Health Care


Ryan Busse: Restore 133,000 Montanans to life-saving Medicaid

Rebuild state agencies and departments that have been severely damaged by harmful ideologies, incompetent leaders and dangerous priorities over the past three-and-a-half years. This includes the Department of Human Health and Services, which has overseen the removal of nearly 133,000 Montanans from life-saving Medicaid health care services. It includes restoring the Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks back to the premier agency for protecting public land and managing public wildlife it once was. It also includes improving the working relationships between the State and county/municipal governments. I will also restore the government-to-government relationships the State of Montana should have with Indigenous Nations.
Source: Ballotpedia Candidate Connection: 2024 Montana Governor race Aug 8, 2024

Ryan Busse: Medicaid expansion improved the lives of countless people

Ryan Busse: Folding more Montanans into Medicaid coverage was a bipartisan solution that has only improved the lives and livelihood[s] of countless people. It has provided certainty and stability in our communities--for kids, seniors and Indigenous people. And it has saved all of us money in the long term.

Tanner Smith: We need to provide some assistance for the healthcare of children and those folks in need of temporary coverage. I also believe people who can work need to work and provide for themselves, including their health insurance. There needs to be sideboards and curbs on Medicaid or it will become financially unsustainable like every governmental assistance program. Those of us in the private sector don't work 7 days a week so everyone can have freebies.

Source: Montana Free Press on 2024 Montana Gubernatorial race May 10, 2024

Tanner Smith: We don't work 7 days a week so everyone can have freebies

Ryan Busse: Folding more Montanans into Medicaid coverage was a bipartisan solution that has only improved the lives and livelihood[s] of countless people. It has provided certainty and stability in our communities--for kids, seniors and Indigenous people. And it has saved all of us money in the long term.

Tanner Smith: We need to provide some assistance for the healthcare of children and those folks in need of temporary coverage. I also believe people who can work need to work and provide for themselves, including their health insurance. There needs to be sideboards and curbs on Medicaid or it will become financially unsustainable like every governmental assistance program. Those of us in the private sector don't work 7 days a week so everyone can have freebies.

Source: Montana Free Press on 2024 Montana Gubernatorial race May 10, 2024

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