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FILE - In this April 30, 2014 file photo, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton delivers his State of the State address before a joint session of the Legislature in St. Paul, Minn. Democrats who control the Minnesota Legislature can brag about key accomplishments in the just-completed session, including a big boost in the minimum wage and a tougher statewide anti-bullying law. But they needed and got help from Republicans to push through $1.1 billion in spending on construction projects, major tax relief and legalized medical marijuana. (AP Photo/Tom Olmscheid)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2014 file photo, Medical marijuana advocates watch as the Minnesota House of Representatives vote on a bill that would legalize marijuana use for medical reasons at the Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Democrats who control the Minnesota Legislature can brag about key accomplishments in the just-completed session, including a big boost in the minimum wage and a tougher statewide anti-bullying law. But they needed and got help from Republicans to push through $1.1 billion in spending on construction projects, major tax relief and legalized medical marijuana. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glen Stubbe)
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FILE - In this May 15, 2014 file photo, Rep. Rod Hamilton hugs House bill author Rep. Carly Melin during a news conference in St. Paul, Minn. Democrats who control the Minnesota Legislature can brag about key accomplishments in the just-completed session, including a big boost in the minimum wage and a tougher statewide anti-bullying law. But they needed and got help from Republicans to push through $1.1 billion in spending on construction projects, major tax relief and legalized medical marijuana. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glen Stubbe) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, a pedestrian crosses South Dooly Street in the main business section of Montezuma, Ga. Hospitals are under financial pressure everywhere, but the problems are compounded in rural America. There are fewer patients than in cities and, logically, fewer customers to pay for a hospital’s costs. According to a 2010 U.S. Census report, the population of Montezuma has decreased by 13.5 percent since 2000. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, residents stop and talk during a weekday lunch hour along the town's main business street in Montezuma, Ga. As rural hospitals struggle financially, the situation is worse in states like Georgia that are not allowing the poorest of the uninsured to enroll in Medicaid. Republican Gov. Nathan Deal says the long-run costs are too expensive. But putting more people on insurance would mean that hospitals like Flint River treat fewer people without an ability to pay at least some of their bills. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE - In this March 1, 2010 photo, Clay Dean of UW School of Medicine and Public Health's Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine checks the ear of Britta Hogan, 6, during pediatrics training at Marshfield Clinic's center in Rice Lake, Wis. A report this week says that one in six UW medical school graduates entered family practice in the last three years. The school’s No. 9 ranking in that category suggests Wisconsin’s efforts to produce more doctors are working, especially to produce physicians willing to practice in rural areas. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Craig Schreiner)
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FILE -- In this July 23, 2013 file photo is Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing; "Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children". Denham, whose district is in California's agricultural heartland of the San Joaquin Valley, is not worried that Congress' failure to pass immigration legislation will hurt his reelection.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci,file)
