Committee tables bill to split health department • Daily Montanan

Committee tables bill to split health department • Daily Montanan

Montana State Hospital. Credit Keith SchubertAdmonishing the Montana Legislature for being the “enabler” of a “pampered” and “dysfunctional” health department, Rep. John Fitzpatrick said Monday it’s time to break up the largest bureaucracy in the state. The Republican from Anaconda said legislators have been forking over tens of millions of dollars to the Department of Public Health and Human Services and excusing it from accountability, and it’…