Health

Omnibus health and human services finance bill passes House with several bipartisan amendments

By Susan Hegarty, Session Daily

Rep. Tom Huntley, chair of the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee, speaks to the media in the House gallery April 22 to give a preview of the omnibus health and human services finance bill. (Photo by Andrew VonBank)

Health care workers who have experienced reduced pay and benefits in recent years because of state deficits could receive 2-3 percent pay increases.

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Cutting pills in half and waiting for MNsure

By Erin Collins, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Würfel, Wikimedia Commons.

 

For Leslie (who preferred we just use her first name), managing health care costs has included cutting pills in half, skipping doses of her medications, hoarding free samples from a neurologist, an

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"Boggled" by deadlines, charts, eligibility, Duluth woman loses out on insurance

By Erin Collins, TC Daily Planet

Photo submitted by Tanya Beyer.

"People in their hard luck have a history of being frustrated and don't reach out and explore their options.

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Is addiction a disease?

By Brandon Ferdig, New Plateaus

With all the reality TV such as “My Strange Addiction”, ”Celebrity Rehab”, and “Hoarders”, there’s never been a time when addiction has been more widely observed.

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CMS document cache #3 released by HHS

By Matt Ehling, Public Record Media

On March 28, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released 837 pages of documents in response to a FOIA lawsuit that PRM filed in federal court late last year.

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Health care proposals go under the knife, move to the House floor

By Susan Hegarty, Session Daily

At first blush, HF1233 appears to be Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget proposals for the Health and Human Services departments. Perhaps that’s because the House Health and Human Services Finance Division used the governor’s plan as a starting block.

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Monitoring of hospital nursing ratios measure passes House

By Susan Hegarty, Session Daily

Hospitals would be required to file a staffing plan with the Minnesota Hospital Association and a working group at the Department of Health would study whether nurse staffing levels have any effect on patient outcomes, under a bill passed by the House Wednesday.

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Service animals clarified as dogs

By Lee Ann Schutz Wahi, Session Daily

Service animals help those with disabilities navigate through their day-to-day activities. Under law, it is an unfair discriminatory practice to prohibit these animals from being in a public place.

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MN VIDEOS | Right to Know Minnesota

By Christine Huff, SPNN

With no movement on the national level regarding labeling gentically modified organisms, states have taken to doing the work themselves. SPNN Doc U participant Christine Huff produced this short documentary on the Minnesota movement of Right to Know.

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Advocates for needy say bipartisan support emerging for increased spending

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

A possible amendment to the health and human services budget that has been bandied about by some members of the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee this week would raise grants to families with children for the first time in 27 years. (Courtesy of MN Senate Media Services)

Despite recent DFL leadership calls at the Legislature for $150 million in cuts in the proposed health and human services budget, there appears to be a bipartisan effort afoot to increase assistance for needy Minnesota families.

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