Members of a joint working group laid out a course of action, both legislative and by the DHS, that is set to stretch several years into the future, with more immediate benchmarks leading up to significant legislative action starting in 2016.
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Backlog spurs renewed calls to jettison MNsure
Republicans renewed their call for the state to begin transitioning to the federal healthcare.gov system.
Read More »Health care ruling sets off partisan responses
Minnesota wasn’t subject, individually, to the court’s decision, but Gov. Mark Dayton warned that a ruling that eliminated subsidies for other states would have “thrown the whole system into chaos.”
Read More »Little appetite for MSOP change
Despite a federal court ruling, elected officials are reluctant to give sex offenders more freedom.
Read More »Ortman: ‘I’ve always thought this is not a career’
Retiring suburban senator says it’s time for ‘new energy from new folks.'
Read More »Public health programs flashpoints in brewing debate
The MinnesotaCare provision is the bill’s most significant change to existing law, and perhaps its least likely to gain agreement from Senate Democrats and Gov. Mark Dayton.
Read More »MNsure study heralded by Democrats
The dramatic cut in the number of uninsured people in the state brought cheers from Democrats, but the federal health care law will remain a focus of GOP campaigns.
Read More »Some MinnesotaCare clients paying too much
DHS computer troubles delay cost-lowering transfer under new law.
Read More »Emergency MA program gets $2M in Senate bill
The goal is to create a “wraparound” for the Emergency Medical Assistance program that would essentially give state-funded Medicaid benefits to affected immigrants.
Read More »Mark Siegel: Refusing to be stopped
DHS’s Siegel overcomes disease to make outsized contributions to health care policy.
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