It's very exciting. If feels like this contract is about hope for the future, rather than the status quo.

These cuts to Medicaid are a step backwards on the road to ensuring that every Minnesotan has access to quality, affordable health care. Promising to make health care more affordable, while simultaneously cutting Medicaid for our most vulnerable citizens, is not a Minnesota value.

The reality doesn't live up to the rhetoric. Health savings accounts are only escalating this crisis by shifting the cost onto working families ? making it more difficult to access medical care and more difficult to provide for our families.

They project out from 2001 to the future based on what they expect future air traffic to be.

We certainly appreciate what John did but hope that's something we can manage in the future. This is exactly the prototype we would like to have for the trust fund going forward.

but I hope we'll do better in the future.