Legislative Update April 24, 2015
Legislative Update April 24, 2015
With less than a month to go in the 2015 Legislative Session, there’s little consensus on the next state budget, and healthcare is the biggest argument. Even though the state has a $1.9 billion surplus, the GOP’s proposed budget provides for $2 billion in tax cuts and cuts $1 billion from Health and Human Services. House Republicans want to slash healthcare so they can give cuts to big business, including eliminating the corporate property tax altogether.
Rep. Matt Dean’s (R-Dellwood) proposal is to drop MinnesotaCare entirely. MinnesotaCare is the insurance program for about 90,000 Minnesotans who make too much money for Medicaid but not enough to buy insurance through an exchange.
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