Governors seek relief from health care costs at summer meeting
At Boise NGA talks, 30 governors push to curb soaring health care bills and Medicaid costs, seeking more federal aid and drug price relief. They note state budget shortfalls totaling $40 billion to $50 billion and warn against deep cuts to education and social services while prescription drug costs rise and Medicaid consumes about 20 percent of budgets.
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One dead in printing plant fire in Wisconsin collapse
A deadly blaze at a large printing plant in Lomira, Wisconsin, followed a collapse that trapped Keith Freiberg, 22, who died Friday night. Two forklift operators were in a new addition. about 330 workers were elsewhere. Quad Graphics shifted production to other plants.
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