Health proposal stalls talks

SPRINGFIELD – State budget talks resumed on Tuesday with a presentation on the same sweeping health care proposal Gov. Rod Blagojevich introduced back on March 7.

But bringing an Emory University economist, former congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt and several labor leaders to the talks did not appear to move the process forward.

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