The legislative power (allowing for unallotment) by which the governor of Minnesota is unilaterally able to remedy the state’s budgetary shortfall hasn’t spared healthcare the ax. Within the almost $236M he has proposed for cuts to the Dept. of Human Services, the biggest brunt of ambulatory and hospital (acute) care benefits will be felt by the state’s GAMC fund, which serves low-income adults, ages 21-64, who have no dependent children under age 18 and who do not qualify for federal health care programs. Gov. Pawlenty not only proposes cuts to the program, but also its total eradication for the second year of the upcoming legislative biennium (2010-11). Heavy, indeed. | LINK

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