Homeless speak out against Pawlenty's tax cuts

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http://wcco.com/politics/human.rights.homeless.2.1120523.html

This past legislative session, Pawlenty ended the General Assistance Medical Care program. GAMC covers most homeless Minnesotans. They'll lose that coverage come March.

"People on anti-psychotic meds who are trying to figure out, 'Well do I wean myself off? How do I do that?' People with diabetes insulin. These real life or death issues. They're scared," said Lange.

Elssa Cardenez was on GAMC for more than a year. It paid for her drug treatment. She's been clean and off the streets for 16 months.

"I would just hate for the cuts to be done and not have other people get out of it the way I did," Cardenez worried.

Hennepin County Medical Center sees the most patients on GAMC in Minnesota. It covers 10 percent of the hospital's budget. Of the patients on the program getting treatment at the hospital, 30 percent are homeless.

Michael Harristhal worries it will drive up cost for everyone if the program ends.

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Has Pawlenty done a damn thing for job creation in America, so the GAMC program wouldn't be necessary in the first place? Of course not...

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1. We should all (including Pawlenty) be concerned about

people off their anti-psychotic meds.

My God.