by Betsy Sundquist
Published: February 19, 2010
Tags: GAMC, Minnesota Hospital Association
The Minnesota Hospital Association this week provided legislators with figures detailing how hospitals across the state would fare under the Legislature's plan to restore General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC), and also what would happen under Gov. Tim Pawlenty's plan.
by Steve Perry
Published: July 1, 2009
Tags: Litigation, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minnesota 2010-11 budget, Minnesota Hospital Association, Tim Pawlenty, unallotment
When Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced his plan to balance the state budget through unilateral cuts applied under Minnesota’s emergency budget-cutting statute, the buzz about possible litigation was a leading source of speculation–and more than a few privately uttered threats–at the Capitol complex. But in the ensuing month-plus, all that talk has quietly but steadily fallen [...]
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. [...]
