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Pass health reform, reauthorize Indian Health Care Improvement Act

There’s a lot to lose if we don’t pass health care reform.

This is our golden moment to make changes that ban pre-existing conditions, put the brakes on out-of-control medical expenses and hold insurance companies accountable. It’s also our moment to reauthorize and fund the long-languishing Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
 

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Kentucky's Bunning deals blow to Montanans in need

2/26/2010

One vote by a Kentucky senator has snatched away the social safety net of thousands of Montanans.

Meet Sen. Jim Bunning, evidently the most selfish, ridiculously partisan member of Congress.

His single vote prevents Congress from moving forward to provide a one-month extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits that will help millions of Americans in need - including thousands of out-of-work Montanans.

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Montanans are still waiting for health reform: Wendy White

2/26/2010

Great Falls resident Wendy White is still waiting for health care reform.
 
In January she traveled to Washington, D.C., as a Change That Works citizen lobbyist (see a TV news story about her trip here) to ask members of Congress to move forward on the issue, and to share her own health care story.
 
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Montana Delegation Weighs in on Obama Health Proposal

2/25/2010

Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester both sounded optimistic about Monday's plan from President Obama on how to move health care reform forward.

 

That's encouraging. 

 

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New ad lifts up Tester on financial reform

2/25/2010

A new television ad airing in Billings lifts up Sen. Jon Tester for speaking out earlier this month against a misleading advertisement about financial reforms being considered by Congress.

The old ad, funded by a shadowy conservative group based in North Carolina, is part of a campaign seeking to derail financial reforms that would halt the reckless practices by Big Banks and Wall Street that devastated our economy...

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Missoula Stands Up for Jobs

2/24/2010

Laid-off steelworkers and supporters marched to the local offices of Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester and Rep. Denny Rehberg on Thursday to share their stories and ask for financial reform and jobs to get Montana's economy moving again.

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White House: A Plan to Move Health Care Forward

2/22/2010

The White House just released a health care compromise that shows a path forward for the much-needed and almost-completed reform.

According to the Wonk Room, the plan maintains key elements of the Senate proposal as well as some from House bill, such as stronger anti-fraud provisions and language to allow the federal government to review insurance rate hikes. The plan does not include a public option and uses...

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Business Leaders at Missoula Chamber of Commerce Ask for Health Reform

2/20/2010

A group of prominent bankers and business leaders at the Missoula Chamber of Commerce asked Sen. Max Baucus for health care reform and financial reforms that make sense for Montana's local banks and small businesses. 

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We’ve Come Too Far to Give Up Now on Health Reform

2/10/2010

We need to keep moving forward to fix our dysfunctional health care system. Each week we delay, more families and businesses go bankrupt due to crippling medical expenses. And more people die because they can’t afford health insurance.

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Chamber Fails Again to Work for Main Street Montana

2/10/2010

Once again the Chamber of Commerce shows that it will go to any length to put the interests of Wall Street and big banks ahead of Main Street Montana. We've already seen the Chamber funnel millions of dollars from the insurance industry into misleading anti-health...

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Myth Machine Fires Up on Financial Reform

2/10/2010

The champions of our miserable status quo have launched an offensive against financial reform with a whole new series of myths. A new ad now airing in Montana tries to make a claim that proposed reforms of our nation's financial system amount to a "big bank bailout." It's a cynical and misleading ploy from the people who brought us the absurd cries of "death panels" and "socialized medicine....

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Rural Montana Needs Health Care Reform

2/10/2010

People throughout our nation—in communities both large and small—suffer as a result of our broken health care system. Challenges faced by rural residents include:

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Montanans Wonder: Where's MY bonus?

2/10/2010

This recession -- with its jarring combinations of layoffs and obscene CEO bonuses -- has certainly come home to Montana. Layoffs and business closures are on the rise, and now the "bonus" news has broken.

Smurfit-Stone Container -- which has sought bankruptcy protection, shuttered its Frenchtown pulp mill and laid off more than local 400 workers -- paid out $50.4 million in bonuses last year,...

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U.S. Senate Clears Major Hurdle in Moving Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Forward

12/15/2009

The U.S. Senate has voted for cloture on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This is the first in a final series of votes on health care reform.  Americans have been waiting for over 10 decades for health insurance reform and, finally, after scores of hearings and thousands of hours of debate and negotiation, the legislation is moving forward.  
 

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Baucus and Tester Stand Up For Seniors

12/15/2009

Votes Against McCain Amendment Handout to Insurance Companies

Today, Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester stood up for seniors and voted against the McCain amendment. The amendment was defeated 58-42.

"I want to thank Baucus and Tester for looking out for Montana.  I am relieved that they realize the urgent needs seniors have for quality affordable care," said Mabel Weis,...

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Montanans protest Rehberg's vote on healthcare reform

12/15/2009

Montanans labeled Rep. Denny Rehberg a "disappointment" in four demonstrations across the state last month for being Montana's most vocal opponent of health care reform. 

In Great Falls, activists drew chalk outlines of bodies on the pavement outside the state's at-large congressman outside his office. The outlines put into a familiar, graphic image the news from a recent Harvard University study:...

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