House Health Care - 2026-01-29 - 10:00AM

Senate Appropriations / Senate Health & Welfare (joint hearing) · January 30, 2026

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Opening / Housekeeping

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Meeting reconvened and brief administrative exchanges (paperclip joke); chair announced next presenter from the Department of Health. Procedural remarks setting the meeting context.

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Department of Health officials told legislators the Agency of Human Services faces a $75,000,000 shortfall and proposed several program reductions — including ending certain tuition-assistance and AHEC grants and discontinuing a state prescription drug repository pilot — while shifting some programs internally and pointing to new rural health transformation funding with restrictions. Committee members pressed for more data and an actuarial analysis before considering insurer-related changes later in the hearing.

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