I now believe the time for biennial budgeting has come.
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Conrad supports switching to a biennial budgeting process due to inefficiencies in the current system.
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I cannot be part of any recommendations on long-term care because I am conflicted.
What happens is those people, if the children are not able to care for them, they are going into institutions, but where is that being paid for? Overwhelmingly, it is being paid for out of Medicaid accounts.
We had literally hundreds of people and groups come before this commission. We listened intently for all sides on how we could fix these challenges.
We very much see it as a package. That is the way it was negotiated, and this was a difficult negotiation to get 18 of the 19 to agree representing all points on the political spectrum.





