It appears so. A.J. Otjen, Ph.D., a marketing professor at MSU in Billings, just announced her bid for the Republican nomination for the house seat now occupied by Dennis Rehberg. Here’s what she said in part on health care:
I think the private insurance industry does not work and does not add value. Let the doctors and hospitals stay in a free market system and compete to lower costs and increase quality, but the customers must see the prices for it to work. We can send our bills to a single payer or public option, some kind of collection and payment system, which should be about 15% of our GDP or $2Trillion. We’re paying more than that now with insurance benefits, so I have no problem transferring that to paying it in taxes to a collective system.
That puts her to the left of Max Baucus, where, to be fair, there’s a lot of room for someone to be put.