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...touches on the last major bill outstanding -- a $7.4 billion funding package for nursing homes, welfare and subsidized health insurance -- so they could pass it and adjourn Tuesday night or Wednesday at the latest. Around 1 a.m. Monday...
...children who now go without coverage. It would raise the eligibility limits for MinnesotaCare, the state's subsidized health insurance program, so that even a family of four making $39,000 a year could get comprehensive care for its children...
...DFL-Minneapolis, has represented District 62A since 1978 and was one of the architects of MinnesotaCare, the state-subsidized health insurance program. The 58-year-old cited ''personal reasons'' for stepping down, including income needs. He...
...about 10,000 people who do not speak English and who are eligible for Medicaid, welfare and the state's subsidized health insurance, MinnesotaCare. "It was a very serious problem," said Abigail Turner, Mid-Minnesota's litigation...
...state subsidies for child care. And $200 million would be saved by making fewer people eligible for state-subsidized health insurance, 68,000 fewer by 2007. "What we're doing is driving up everybody's medical bills just so we can keep...
...people would be eligible for MinnesotaCare, and premiums and copayments would be increased. --Eliminate subsidized health insurance for higher-income adults. --Dedicate 2.5 cents per pack of cigarette tax to medical education funding...
...speaking at the Little Falls chamber meeting, defended his plans to eliminate eligibility to MnCare, a state-subsidized health insurance for working Minnesotans whose firms do not provide health insurance. Even though a number of Minnesotans will...
...last week that allows the state to change income guidelines for farmers seeking eligibility for the state-subsidized health insurance program. As a result, a provision has been included in the final budget bill that will allow farmers to deduct...
...insurance. Rather than adopt Pawlenty's budget plan, which would see 68,000 fewer people with state-subsidized health insurance by the end of his term, Berglin suggests the state keep covering the same number of people it does now, but...
...Republicans and Pawlenty achieve significant parts of their savings by limiting who is eligible for state-subsidized health insurance, by paring welfare benefits and by cutting payments to doctors, hospitals and pharmacists. Sen. Linda Berglin's...