GOP's Pawlenty Admits Missed Chance In GOP Debate
Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is knocking his Republican debate performance in his personal scorebook while getting in another dig at rival Mitt Romney's health care record.
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Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is knocking his Republican debate performance in his personal scorebook while getting in another dig at rival Mitt Romney's health care record.
Minnesota Democrats and Republicans are joining forces to focus on workplace wellness.
Health care spending in Minnesota rose to $36 billion in 2009, but state officials say the rate of growth fell to its lowest level in more than a decade.
Minnesota has long been known as a compassionate state that takes care of its vulnerable -- the Midwestern version of Sweden.
A rift among Republicans over a piece of the federal health care overhaul was showing Thursday at a Capitol rally.
As a new generation of emergency rooms opens across the east metro, patients are finding amenities that might remind them more of hotels than hospitals.
The new University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital is about to begin accepting patients.
Minnesota congresswoman and potential GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says she'll vote against the federal budget bill because it doesn't remove funding for the president's health care overhaul.
The Minnesota House approved deep cuts to health and welfare programs in an early-morning vote Thursday, setting the stage for budget talks between GOP lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
Four large nonprofit health plans will return excess profits from public health care contracts to the state under a yearlong deal announced Tuesday by Gov. Mark Dayton.
A health and welfare package that would slash projected spending by $1.6 billion over two years cleared the Minnesota on Wednesday.
A cost-cutting bill that freezes government worker pay for two years, alters state employee health insurance and slices budgets for most agencies has cleared the Minnesota Senate.
A Republican plan to overhaul Minnesota's health care programs and cut into services for the poor and disabled has cleared the Senate.
At the Minnesota State Capitol Friday, much of the day was spent on Republican's controversial cuts to the state's budget, which is the $1.6 billion in cuts to state health care programs. It was also a day for people who will be affected by those cuts to have their say.
House Republicans aim to reduce projected health and welfare spending $1.6 billion by cutting services for the disabled and elderly and MinnesotaCare health care while seeking federal permission for more health care cuts.
A Minnesota lawmaker wants to restart the quest for software to streamline applications for health and welfare programs after a failed project that cost at least $41 million.
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is raising eyebrows again -- this time over comments about the new health care bill. She's accusing President Obama of secretly inserting billions of dollars of mandatory spending into the measure without anyone knowing.
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton's push to involve Minnesota in the federal health care overhaul has resulted in a $187.4 million grant to keep elderly and disabled Medicaid patients out of institutional care.
A growing number of Iowans traveling to Minnesota for medical care at the Mayo Clinic have added to the state's largest health insurer's costs and contributed to rate increases.
Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday pushed up a Medicaid health care expansion he sought under the federal health care overhaul, saying broader coverage for 95,000 vulnerable adults will start March 1, seven months sooner than previously predicted.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose 10 percent, trumping Wall Street expectations, as premiums climbed and a drop in health care use continued to help the insurer.
Minnesota hospitals showed no improvement in reducing the number of serious medical mistakes last year, according to a new report from the state Department of Health, which disappointed some experts who hoped for a drop.
Managed care company UnitedHealth Group Inc. becomes the first major health insurer to report on its fourth-quarter and full-year performance for 2010 when it releases earnings results Thursday before the market opens.
Gov. Mark Dayton and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius say they're working together on Minnesota's participation in the federal health care overhaul.
Anti-health care protesters pushed their way into Gov. Mark Dayton's Minnesota State Capitol Office on Wednesday, as the new Democratic governor prepared to sign an executive order expanding Medicaid.
