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  • Op/Ed: Health care reforms benefiting Montanans

    Sen. Cary Smith and Rep. Rhonda Knudsen|Updated Jun 1, 2022

    The 2021 Montana Legislature passed major health care reforms to empower patients, reduce red tape for doctors, and provide access to more affordable care. We’re now seeing those changes have a major positive impact, and as the sponsors of the bills enabling this progress, we couldn’t be more excited. The bills we passed expanded telehealth, protected Direct Patient Care, and allowed doctors to dispense medicine to their patients. Importantly, all three bills followed con...