Letter to the editor

I am a rancher, registered nurse, past Republican Chair of the Montana Legislature’s Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee and a Senior Citizen.

A fundamental conservative principle is to care for our children, our elderly and vulnerable citizens.

The Montana State Health and Human Services Department must have adequate State funding to pull down the 2 to 3 times Federal matching dollars or critical healthcare services across Montana will disappear. Critical services to children, elderly, mentally ill and disabled persons will cease to exist.

Without the Federal Medicaid Expansion match dollars passed by the 2017 Legislature, Rural healthcare will be severely impacted, closing nursing homes and rural hospitals. More than 100 critical access hospitals have closed primarily in state’s that chose to not use federal funds.

Montana is so rural it is designated a Frontier State. Most Montana citizens are not wealthy. Gianforte’s proposed 30% tax cut, if enacted, would devastate the ability to provide Health Services to our most vulnerable citizens.

Edith Clark

P.O. Box 34

Sweet Grass, Montana 59484

ejclark@northerntel.net

406-937-6905

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