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Bozeman Daily Chronicle: To bring the Treasure State into line with the rest of the nation, State Auditor and Insurance Commissioner John Morrison is leading efforts to make more Montana kids eligible for a federal health-insurance program. The Healthy Montana Kids Plan makes fiscal sense, the auditor added, given the generous matching funds from the federal government. If the state devoted $20 million a year to the CHIP program, it would get $70 million in matching funds from the federal government. The state portion would be paid with money from the state's insurance premium tax. But there are differing views on how that would affect state finances overall. In analyzing the plan, Gov. Brian Schweitzer's budget office in March reported I-155 would lead to "a significant reduction in general tax revenues for other state services" beginning in December 2008, in large part because it doesn't generate any new revenue. Morrison has said that should not be the case. The governor's budget projections are too low, he told Lee Newspapers, and the Healthy Montana Kids program wouldn't hurt existing programs.
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