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2026 Medicaid in Montana: How Medicaid Impacts Montana's State Budget, Economy and Health
This year’s reports are particularly important in establishing a baseline as Montana, like all states, prepares to implement new, unprecedented Medicaid requirements that will impact enrollment, spending and health outcomes. Both reports are a product of a unique three-way data sharing relationship between the Montana Health Care Foundation, the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, and Manatt.
California's 1967 Wiretap Law is Being Weaponized Against Main Street
Manatt Privacy and Data Security Partner Brandon Reilly authored an article for Daily Journal on the misuse of California's decades-old wiretapping statute against businesses operating ordinary website technologies.
Reilly wrote that the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a 1967 criminal wiretapping law, is being stretched far beyond its original intent to target businesses, nonprofits and public agencies for using routine website tools like cookies and pixels—already regulated under California's modern privacy laws. Over 3,000 businesses have been sued in the past two years alone, he noted, with plaintiff-side attorneys driving a mass-litigation business model that enriches lawyers while delivering little to no benefit to consumers. Senate Bill 690, Reilly contended, would restore CIPA to its original purpose and end the exploitative litigation wave.
"Stretching a mid-twentieth-century wiretapping law to govern today's internet has produced only confusion, not stronger privacy protections," wrote Reilly.
Daily Journal subscribers can read the full article here.
Making RHTP Investments That Last: How States and Stakeholders Can Achieve Long-Term Impact
The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), authorized by H.R. 1, is a five-year, $50 billion investment in rural health care distributed across all 50 states. For a rural health care delivery system contending with workforce shortages, shrinking revenues and rising costs, the roughly $1 billion each state stands to receive represents a meaningful opportunity to address longstanding structural challenges.
States are still in the early stages of designing, implementing and making funding decisions for their RHTP plans. This makes it exactly the right moment to think carefully about where these dollars should go. States have until October 30, 2026 to obligate their first-year awards, creating real urgency to move quickly. But speed cannot come at the cost of vision. RHTP is a time-limited program. The goal should not be just to put the money to work but to ensure its impact is sustained well beyond the life of the program.
