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Conservative groups are trying to kill Montana’s Medicaid expansion

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Montana ’s Medicaid expansion is set to expire next year unless the legislature and governor opt to renew it.

Opponents see a rare opportunity to eliminate Medicaid expansion in one of the 40 states that have approved it.

The expansion program extends Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level.

FGA has long lobbied nonexpansion states, including Texas , Kansas , and Mississippi , to leave Medicaid expansion alone.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has countered that such ideas would leave more people without care.

In Montana , Republicans are defending a supermajority they didn’t have when a bipartisan group passed the expansion in 2015 and renewed it in 2019 .

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