by Charley Shaw
Published: March 17, 2010
Tags: federal health care legislation, GAMC, Health Care, House Health Care and Human Services Finance Division, MCHA, Senate GOP Caucus, Tom Emmer, Tom Huntley
State GOP pols don't want the federal health care proposal to wash up on Minnesota's shores. DFLers in the Legislature, however, said there's $3 billion in reasons the state needs the bill to pass.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: Erin Murphy, GAMC, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Health Care, health care access fund, Linda Berglin, MinnesotaCare, Tom Huntley
Legislators who have spent the last nine months trying to find a way to pay for health care for Minnesota's poorest and sickest residents joined Gov. Tim Pawlenty this afternoon to announce that they had reached a compromise on replacing the soon-to-be-defunct General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program.
by The Associated Press
Published: February 26, 2010
Tags: Health Care, Jim Doyle, Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Senate on Thursday approved a state-run program to provide basic health insurance for thousands of low-income Wisconsin residents waiting for care.
by Paul Demko
Published: February 24, 2010
Tags: Health Care, John Kline
U.S. Rep. John Kline will be among nine Republicans attending President Obama's much ballyhooed bi-partisan health care summit on Thursday. As the ranking Republican on the House's Education and Labor Committee, the four-term legislator could be a key player in discussions. But given that participants can't even agree on seat assignments, the prospects for making progress look grim.
by The Associated Press
Published: February 12, 2010
Tags: Barack Obama, Health Care, Republicans
First he called congressional Democrats' yearlong march toward health care overhaul an ugly process. Now President Barack Obama wants to talk directly with Republicans, the very people his Capitol Hill allies call obstinate and uncooperative.
by Paul Demko
Published: February 5, 2010
Tags: Health Care, Minnesota Department of Health, Sanne Magnan, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
The number of Minnesota residents lacking health insurance increased from 7.2 to 9.1 percent between 2007 and 2009, according to a new survey by the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. The study estimates that 480,000 Minnesotans lacked coverage last year, an increase of more than 100,000 compared to 2007.
by Dane Smith
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: Al Quie, Ann Lenczewski, Betsy Sundquist, Dane Smith, Health Care, Tim Pawlenty
For God's sake (or at least for St. Peter's sake), could just a few good legislators in those anti-tax straitjackets please listen to and heed former Gov. Al Quie, a Christian conservative of uncommon common sense and compassion?
by Bloomberg News
Published: January 15, 2010
Tags: Elections, Health Care, Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Ted Kennedy
The race to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat, once considered a foregone conclusion in a heavily Democratic state, is taking on national significance as some polls show Republican state Sen. Scott Brown trailing Democratic state Attorney General Martha Coakley by as few as 2 percentage points, and after Brown raised $1.3 million in 24 hours over the Internet.
by Charley Shaw
Published: December 18, 2009
Tags: Health and Human Services, Health Care, Joe Atkins, Laura Brod, Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association, Sarah Anderson, Tim Pawlenty
Several Minnesota health care organizations that lobby state lawmakers are lining up to oppose Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal to allow Minnesotans to purchase individual health insurance policies that are sold by out-of-state insurers.
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.
