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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 13:52:44 PM MST
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The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services voted today to strip $70 million out of the Healthy Montana Kids Act, effectively gutting the program according to one legislator I spoke with today.
This decision was made on a party line vote with the following Republican legislators voting to cut:
| Sen. Dave Lewis |
| Rep. Penny Morgan |
| Rep. Don Roberts |
| Sen. John Esp |
I'm slammed at work today. Anyone have the vote totals for these districts on the Healthy Montana Kids Initiative?
Update -- Just so we're clear on numbers, we're talking about health insurance for roughly 29,000 children. And the bulk of the money for this program would be federal money -- federal money that even Rep. Dennis Rehberg voted for (but that Max Baucus is largely responsible with the SCHIP reauthorization).
We're talking $18 million in state money in FY2010. That's a little more than $50 per child per month -- not a bad deal for health insurance that will get needed health care provided now, not years down the road. |
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