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Historic public hearing draws nearly a thousand

Hundreds of people attended the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee special hearing on Medicaid cuts Friday Jan. 28, 2011at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise. The committee heard testimony from service providers, recipients and care givers of health and welfare programs that would be affected by any measures to reduce funding to Idaho's Medicaid system. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman / Darin Oswald)
Hundreds of people attended the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee special hearing on Medicaid cuts Friday Jan. 28, 2011at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise. The committee heard testimony from service providers, recipients and care givers of health and welfare programs that would be affected by any measures to reduce funding to Idaho's Medicaid system. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman / Darin Oswald)

Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today's historic public hearing on funding for Health and Welfare programs in Idaho; it drew close to a thousand people to the Idaho Statehouse to decry cuts in services for the disabled. Many called for tax increases instead.

Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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