General Assistance Medical Care – Minnesota

Pawlenty will sign health bill for poor, By Warren Wolfe and Baird Helgeson, March 24, 2010, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “With just a week to spare before thousands of low-income Minnesotans were scheduled to lose state-sponsored health coverage, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a compromise measure that would extend the state’s General Assistance Medical Care program (GAMC). The 121-12 vote ended weeks of political battle that brought the program to the brink of death, after a veto by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and produced intense lobbying by the state’s hospitals, Catholic bishops and advocates for the poor. The measure, which passed the Senate last week, allows GAMC to survive in a pared-down form and continue serving about 30,000 of the state’s sickest and poorest residents…”