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Montana's hospitals flexed their political muscle to renew the state's Medicaid expansion program

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Montana 's powerful hospital lobby was instrumental in renewing the state’s Medicaid expansion program.

Hospital lobbyists helped steamroll Medicaid expansion through the legislature.

They defeated attempts to add new requirements to the program and to place new regulations on the hospitals.

The hospitals’ political pull is acknowledged by frustrated conservative lawmakers who say they need more oversight.

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informal

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English

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71

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