Healthcare in America has become a political hostage, traded in this shutdown fight and used as leverage to score power.

Montanans will not be used as bargaining chips anymore. I’m drafting the Universal Healthcare Act because no family should lose care based on who’s winning a power struggle in Washington.

We’re done playing chicken with people’s lives.

Rural hospitals collapse because funding follows population instead of need. This Montana-built legislation corrects this by equalizing the tax base. Rural communities will no longer be punished for geography.

Healthcare is a right, not a market calculation.

Right now access to healthcare depends on an employer acting as the middleman. The Universal Healthcare Act replaces that system with a public network that every American can buy into by right. The government steps into the role employers currently play as the payer-of-record for baseline care. This is a universal guarantee so working families are never one layoff or shutdown away from losing care.

The Universal Healthcare Act guarantees that every American shall have healthcare as a protected right.

The bill establishes comprehensive coverage that includes primary care, hospital care, emergency care, prescriptions, maternal health, pediatric services, dental care, vision care, rehabilitation, and mental health care with full legal parity.

Rural and Tribal communities are the first to feel the consequences when Washington fails. Montanans know what it means when a local clinic closes, when a hospital struggles to staff its emergency room, or when the nearest specialist is two counties away.

The current system treats rural America as expendable. The Universal Healthcare Act reverses this by placing rural communities first in rollout and design.

This bill is being built from the ground up, not the top down. Listening sessions will continue to be held across Montana with healthcare workers, Tribal governments, educators, agricultural workers, seniors, veterans, families, and local leaders.

Public feedback will shape the final text before it is introduced in the United States Senate.

I’m asking all Montanans to participate in the drafting process. Community testimony, lived experience, and practical frontline knowledge are essential for a bill that’s built for the people it serves. Healthcare belongs to the public. It cannot be dictated by lobbyists, and it cannot be suspended every time Congress stalls.

To share feedback or request participation in a listening session, contact the campaign at info@reillyformontana.com.

The Universal Healthcare Act will belong to the people who helped write it and will benefit from its intent for generations to come.

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The Universal Healthcare Act: At a Glance

Purpose

Guarantees healthcare as a federally protected right.

Built in Montana

Drafted through community input, not lobbying firms.

Who it serves

Every citizen and lawful resident, with rural and Tribal communities first in rollout.

What it covers

Primary care, hospital care, emergency care, prescriptions, maternal and pediatric care, dental care, vision care, rehabilitation, and mental health care at legal parity.

What it prevents

Healthcare can no longer be used as leverage during shutdowns or partisan disputes.

How it’s built

Listening sessions, testimony, and public participation from Montana communities during drafting.