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New year, new Legislature: session open hints at priorities, discord

...bills would attempt to whittle away at state IOUs to schools, give rebates to more property taxpayers, install a health care insurance exchange and prop up business investment grant programs. Meanwhile, Republicans relegated to the minority tried...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-01-08/new-year-new-legislature-minnesota-s
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Lieutenant governor addresses long-term care crunch

...how much long-term care costs and what options are available. The tools that are available include long-term health care insurance, reversible mortgages and annuities."We just tend to bury our heads in the sand," she said of the public's...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-14/lieutenant-governor-addresses-long-t
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Building security systems in Cass County will be updated

...sent letters to fire departments in the county to notify them that the 2010 Minnesota Legislature made low cost health care insurance available to them.Anyone volunteering on a fire department or ambulance service can apply as of Dec. 1 to sign...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-12-20/building-security-systems-cass-count
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Individual Mandate by Another Name

...Single-payer: The federal government increases income taxes and, in return, guarantees everyone government-provided health-care insurance. There is no option to opt out of the taxes. This is how most of Medicare works, though the insurance kicks...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-04-01/individual-mandate-ano
Columnists
Independent candidate focuses on meth abuse

...working for a halfway house in St. Cloud taught him drug abuse negative affects education, banking, the economy, health care, insurance, social welfare, Social Security and the legal system. Becker studied health education at St. Cloud State...

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/072702/sne_0727020024.shtml
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Vox Pop

...putting the burden of balancing the budget on the average worker. Put some of it on the greedy big corporations like health care insurance corporations and corporations that moved overseas (maintain an office in the U.S.A.) and make huge profits...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-03-16/vox-pop
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Bush proposes tax deduction for long-term care insurance

...Bush today moved further onto traditionally Democratic turf by proposing tax incentives for the elderly to buy health-care insurance and financial relief for people who care for a parent or other elderly relative at home. The plans were fueled...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/051000/nne_0510000009.shtml
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Extending long-term care benefits to retirees cited

...Employee Relations, will explore the possibility. As of this month, current state employees can buy long-term health care insurance and continue it into retirement. The insurance covers nursing home and assisted living care. Employees can buy...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/101200/new_1012000047.shtml
News
Tax crackdown

...or 20 years ago there were only limited long term health care insurance options. But that situation has changed dramatically...costs should do so or should purchase long term health care insurance. The state has its hands full helping those people...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/042303/opi_0423030004.html
Opinion
Teachers walk the line

...that won't happen if he doesn't receive retiree health care insurance, one of the major issues in the unsettled teachers...part because of the school district's retiree health care insurance, which for more than 30 years has been offered...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/021005/new_0210050046.shtml
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