"These reforms are expanding access to high quality, affordable healthcare without the need for strict government mandates or increases in taxes – reaffirming the notion that sometimes the best solution to the problems Montanans face is for the government to just get out of the way."
Montana’s Struggle With Naturopathic Health Care Red Tape
"These rules were written before the internet and cell phones were widely adopted – it’s finally time to dust off the rule book and bring naturopathic health care regulations into the 21st century.”
MtLeg Viewpoint: Health Care Reforms Benefiting Montanans
"All three of these major reforms are empowering Montanans with more freedom to manage their health, access services and save money."
Viewpoint: Why should a doctor licensed to practice in California be unable to do so in Montana?
"While the European Union allows free movement of healthcare workers across its 27 member countries, the United States does not allow this movement across state borders."
Free Market Healthcare is Flourishing in Montana
"SB 101 gave DPC entrepreneurs certainty they wouldn’t be targeted with red tape from overzealous regulators, and it’s led to a booming market."
Montana’s Free Market Healthcare Renaissance
"DPC clinics are taking off all across Montana. In fact, the number of clinics has doubled since SB 101 was signed into law last year, bringing the total to at least 16 healthcare providers!"
Viewpoint: How to Get More Physicians Practicing in Montana
"It is possible to remove the licensing barriers preventing more physicians from practicing in Montana while maintaining high quality health care."
Montana Poised to Lead the Nation with Affordable Health Care Options
"Innovations like DPC show how the health care market is adapting to the needs of patients, bypassing our broken system and building a better doctor-patient relationship."
Viewpoint: When Will Enough be Enough? Why Physicians are Quitting Medicare
"Physicians find themselves faced with an increasingly bureaucratic regulatory nightmare, forcing them to choose between providing good medical care or playing the 'Medicare game' to survive."
Pharmacists Can Help Address Health Care Shortages
"There is firm evidence that eliminating pharmacy technician ratios will allow Montana's pharmacies to do more to help patients, advance public health and bolster the resiliency of the healthcare system."
How Montana Is Revolutionizing Healthcare—With Markets
If direct pay models became commonplace, they would empower and liberate both patients and doctors and do more to bring down costs than other healthcare reforms.
More Work Needed To Expand Access To Health Care
"Reducing the red tape and burdensome regulations imposed on the health care system has proven an effective and cost-conscious way to expand access in Montana, but more needs to be done."