by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: Department of Human Services, General Assistance Medical Care, Gov. Tim Pawlenty
Three Minnesota residents who depend on the state’s General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program to pay for their health care filed suit Thursday in Ramsey County District Court in an effort to keep the program running, despite Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s plan to eliminate it.
by Paul Demko
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: Erin Murphy, General Assistance Medical Care, Jim Abeler, Matt Dean, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Sertich, veto override
After two hours-plus of floor debate this afternoon, House Democrats failed to peel off a single Republican vote to override Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto of General Assistance Medical Care legislation. House DFLers came up three votes shy of the two-thirds majority required to enact the bill without Pawlenty's signature.
by Charley Shaw
Published: January 29, 2010
Tags: 2010 legislative session, Cal Ludeman, Erin Murphy, General Assistance Medical Care, Linda Berglin, Matt Dean, Tim Pawlenty
DFLers and Republicans are heading into the legislative session with differing ideas about how to provide health care to people who relied on the General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program axed last year by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
by Paul Demko
Published: January 8, 2010
Tags: Brian McClung, Dave Senjem, General Assistance Medical Care, Kurt Zellers, Larry Pogemiller, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Tim Pawlenty
Legislative leaders emerged from their first budget talks of 2010 with Gov. Tim Pawlenty Friday afternoon expressing optimism about the forthcoming legislative session. But the goodwill seems unlikely to last once legislators dig into closing a $1.2 billion budget deficit and other thorny issues.
by Paul Demko
Published: December 14, 2009
Tags: Erin Murphy, General Assistance Medical Care, Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, Hennepin County Medical Center, Matt Dean, Mike Opat, Tim Pawlenty
Can some form of General Assistance Medical Care be saved? That was the question debated this afternoon at a joint session of two House committees dealing with health care.
by Scott Carlson
Published: November 12, 2009
Tags: General Assistance Medical Care, Health Care, Minnesota Care, Tim Pawlenty
For the past three decades, Minnesota has paid the health care tab for the state’s poorest residents under a program known as General Assistance Medical Care.
by Charley Shaw
Published: August 17, 2009
Tags: General Assistance Medical Care, Matt Massman, Patricia Torres Ray
State Sen. Patricia Torres Ray, DFL-Minneapolis, told hospital lobbyists and health care advocates that she supports increased revenue to restore the general assistance medical care (GAMC) program.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: July 2, 2009
Tags: General Assistance Medical Care, Hennepin County Medical Center, Paul Thissen, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotments
Minnesota legislators will visit Hennepin County Medical Center Friday to discuss the facility’s potential loss of $43 million to $109 million with Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s elimination of general assistance medical care, which provides health care for more than 30,000 Minnesotans. "I want to be clear:The decision to drop health care for over 30,000 Minnesotans was immoral [...]
by Britt Robson
Published: June 1, 2009
Tags: General Assistance Medical Care, Health & Human Services, Health Care, Linda Berglin, Medical Assistance, Medicare, Minnesota Care, Tim Pawlenty
State Sen. Linda Berglin (DFL-Minneapolis) (pictured) is appropriately regarded as one of the most liberal members of the Minnesota Legislature, especially with respect to providing health care coverage to as many Minnesotans as possible. Berglin spearheaded the legislation that created MinnesotaCare, a state-supported health insurance program primarily for working Minnesota families whose employers don’t provide [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: May 21, 2009
Tags: General Assistance Medical Care, Health and Human Services, Health Care, Lawrence Massa, Minnesota Hospital Association
As the Legislature scrambled last weekend to counter Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s announcement that he would veto and unallot his way to a balanced budget, some of the most dramatic testimony about the impact of his first big line-item veto–of $381 million in General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) funds for FY2011–got swallowed up in the tumult. [...]
