For the last few years, states have been leading the way toward more comprehensive health care coverage to ensure that more people have or can obtain health insurance. Because of the potential impact of this ongoing activity on employer-provided health insurance benefits, Spencer’s Benefits Reports provides regular updates about state health care reform.

Montana. The state’s Healthy Montana Kids program has faced a large backlog of applications. The program, approved by voter initiative in 2008, expands Medicaid and CHIP, with the goal of covering an additional 29,000 children in low- and moderate-income families in Montana. More than 2,300 families have applied for the program for the first time since September, and only about 740 children have been added. Officials blame the backlog on a computer program. For more information, visit http://hmk.mt.gov/.

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