Minnesota Lawyer

1) Gov. Mark Dayton suggested abandoning a deal lawmakers reached last session to keep capital investment legislation under $1 billion for this biennium, with some ...

The goal is to create a “wraparound” for the Emergency Medical Assistance program that would essentially give state-funded Medicaid benefits to affected immigrants.

MNsure interim CEO Scott Leitz declared that Minnesota’s health insurance exchange – which faced a rocky start back in October, underwent a tumultuous leadership change in December and haltingly overcame immense technical issues in the last few months – had “turned a corner.”

Private enrollments hang at 41,273 as of March 25, while medical assistance enrollments have topped 75,000.

Sen. Katie Sieben, who heads the Senate Subcommittee on Elections, will not hear a bill that would let cities adopt ranked choice voting.