KXLH TV, MT: More than $500K Already Behind Pro-Medicaid Expansion Initiative Effort

A coalition of health-care and other groups already has spent or raised more than $500,000 toward qualifying a ballot measure that would extend Medicaid expansion in Montana and raise tobacco taxes to help pay for it. The money – at least one-third of which has come from Montana hospitals – is behind Initiative 185, which would raise the state tax on cigarettes by $2 a pack.