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.
The shuttle diplomacy that's been taking place since Monday's failed House override of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's GAMC veto may be bringing the Legislature and the Pawlenty administration close to a deal. Sen. Linda Berglin offers a few details.
The word is that last night's meeting between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and two key DFL legislators -- Sen. Linda Berglin, DFL-Minneapolis, and Rep. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul -- about reaching a compromise agreement on a bill to extend the life of the General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program lasted almost two hours and produced the framework of a proposal from the governor's office.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty plans to veto the General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) extension bill passed this afternoon by the Legislature.
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.
$292 million? $221 million? Neither? Why it's hard to pin down a number on DFL legislators' GAMC plan.
Sen. Linda Berglin's office just sent along a fiscal analyst's breakdown of the revenue sources for the $292 million proposal to restore about three-fourths of the nearly $400 million in GAMC funding cut by Gov. Tim Pawlenty earlier this year. Here's how it looks.
On Thursday afternoon, Sen. Linda Berglin (DFL-Minneapolis) and Rep. Tom Huntley (DFL-Duluth) announced a plan to restore $292 million of the $396 million in General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) funding cut by Gov. Tim Pawlenty earlier this year.
Hey, Minnesota legislators: Paul Koering’s got your back when it comes to keeping your jobs.
Members of the state Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division heard presentations this morning on federal health care reform from Lynn Blewett of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota, and Jean Marie Abraham, an [...]
A state House and Senate working group that focuses on the general assistance medical care (GAMC) program on Wednesday embarked on a mission to propose millions of dollars in cost savings and reforms that will make up for the program’s elimination.
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