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Making Health Care Affordable And Accessible For All Montanans
Max Baucus’s Principles Of Health Care
- Health Care For All Americans
- Sharing The Burden Between Employers and Individuals
- Controlling Costs
- Preventative Care
From the young, to the young at heart, Max believes that all Montanans should have access to quality, affordable health care.
Max has made it his mission to help Montana rural health facilities get the funding they need and protecting them from unfair cuts in Medicare.
As an original author and long-time champion of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Max has led the fight to provide much needed health care to more than 15,000 Montana children.
As Chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, Max has worked hard to deliver Medicare plans that work for our seniors, health insurance for our children, and ensuring that all Montanans have access to quality health care – no matter where they live.
Max has made it his mission to help Montana rural health facilities get the funding they need and protecting them from unfair cuts in Medicare.
As an original author and long-time champion of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Max has led the fight to provide much needed health care to more than 15,000 Montana children.
As Chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, Max has worked hard to deliver Medicare plans that work for our seniors, health insurance for our children, and ensuring that all Montanans have access to quality health care – no matter where they live.
Working To Keep The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Working For Montana
- Max was one of the original authors of the CHIP program which helps deliver much needed health care to millions of American children.
- With Max’s leadership, his CHIP bill passed the Senate with a veto-proof majority. Max is still fighting to get his plan passed which would set aside more than $27 million for Montana and allow the state to cover an additional 12,000 children while still covering the more than 15,700 children already enrolled.
- Max supported an amendment to require the Department of Health and Human Services to periodically report to Congress the extent of child poverty in the United States. Such assessments would allow the Congress to more adequately provide for the children in need
Leading The Fight To Bring Quality Health Care Across Montana
- Max helped author the Critical Access Hospital Program which has allowed rural hospitals care for patients in small towns all across Montana.
- Max helped pass a provision which lessened the administrative burden on Montana’s Critical Access Hospitals and allows them to pay more attention to caring for their patients.
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Max introduced the Safety Net Preservation Act to protect Montana’s community-owned, non-profit rural health centers which serve an estimated 80,000 Montanans each year.
- Max has been an outspoken opponent to any changes in Medicare or Medicaid that were not designed to also be effective in rural states like Montana.
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Max worked with the senate to fully fund the Rural Hospital Flexibility Grants Program, which is vital to keeping many small hospitals in Montana open. This $25 million grant was greater than grants any other state received.
Using Technology To Provide Rural Montanans Quality Health Care
- Max helped the Teton Medical Center in Chouteau and hospitals in Crow Agency and Glasgow fund telemedicine programs- programs that use video hookups to provide health care. Today, approximately 45 of the 57 hospitals in Montana are Critical Access Hospitals.
- Through the Universal Service Support Program, Max secured “telehealth” programs at the Missouri River Medical Health Center in Fort Benton, the Seely-Swan Center in Seely Lake and the Arlee Family Clinic in Arlee.
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Max worked to fund the REACH consortium (Realizing Education and Community Health)- a partnership between hospitals that are connected to a telecommunications hub in Great Falls. Participating rural hospitals include those in Big Sandy, Chester, Conrad, Cut Bank, Havre and Shelby.
Bringing Money Home To Improve Montana’s Health Care Facilities And Research Programs
- Max knows that we must address the growing shortages of physicians and nurses.
- Max fought for and delivered $2.1 million from The Department of Health and Human Services for Glacier Community Health Center in Cut Bank.
- Max authored a grant program that brought back more than $630,000 to Montana to help cover “high-risk” residents who are unable to get affordable health insurance because of serious of pre-existing conditions.
- Max worked to secure a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant for the University of Montana to support an HIV Vaccine Immunogenic research project. Max has also helped Montana State University receive NIH grants.
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Max fought to secure another HHS grant for an Alzheimer’s demonstration project. The grant gives families, care givers, service providers, health facilities and others affected by Alzheimer’s the treatment, care management, legal counseling and services they need.
- Max helped earn grants for the Deaconess Billings Clinic Foundation to establish a Center for Aging for Education Research on Chronic Conditions Associated with Age, and the Fort Peck Tribe to build the Continuum of Care Circle at the Spotted Bull Center.
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