An opinion piece in the Star Tribune asks why the state of Minnesota is only cutting medical assistance to low-income Minnesotans, "while leaving untouched the massive amount of aid the state provides to middle- and upper-income Minnesotans."
The aid the authors question is in the form of tax exemptions for health insurance premiums -- which they say is more than four times the projected savings for the low-income care cuts. The authors claim this proposal "has something for both liberals and conservatives."
Posted by schwitz at March 30, 2005 07:41 AM