Today is the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. Right now, nearly one in five Montanans gets health care from Medicare, and the state is poised to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands more people next year.
To get a sense of how important the two federal health programs are to Montana, and some idea of where they’re going in the future, I talked to Bryce Ward, the director of health care research at the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research.
Bryce Ward is director of health care research at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. We spoke to him on the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid.
