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Committee Hearings Date: Thursday, February 26, 2004
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About the Debate:
Awaiting committee action is a comprehensive health care package, SF 1760, limiting the growth of insurance premiums; restoring health care cuts made in 2003; allowing small businesses to join the MnCare program; funding health care education initiatives and instituting an electronic medical record system. (Coverage begins at 01:09:58) More: Informational testimony about Minnesota's nursing shortage is first on the committee's agenda. Other bills before the committee include:
SF 1699 - Medical assistance estate recovery (00:36:40).
SF 1991 - Human services costs recovery requirements; frachise tax deduction limits (00:38:31).