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        "title": "Republican lawmakers shy away from changing Montana's constitutional right to abortion",
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        "summary": "\"We're expecting to play defense hard and to watch Republicans try to take away Montanans' right to make their own decisions about their body,\" says Democratic Rep. Alice Buckley.",
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        "summary": "Montana made waves by having a health care plan of that size set prices for all services, not just certain procedures.",
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        "summary": "Expensive stopgaps — including traveling nurses — caused hospitals' costs to rise.",
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        "byline": "Katheryn Houghton, Kaiser Health News",
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        "prettyDate": "April 14, 2022",
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        "summary": "The Biden administration wants rural Americans to know it'll be spending a lot of money to improve health care in rural areas.",
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        "prettyDate": "July 01, 2021",
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