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MNsure selects internal candidate to lead insurance exchange
MNsure tapped its interim leader Wednesday to run the health insurance exchange permanently even though she didn’t apply for the job.
Hann looks ahead to 2016 session, elections
Minority Leader Hann sees a path to swinging the Senate back to GOP control.
MNsure: ‘What’s working and what’s not’
The MNsure Legislative Oversight Committee grills officials on the program’s budget and efficacy.
Backlog spurs renewed calls to jettison MNsure
Republicans renewed their call for the state to begin transitioning to the federal healthcare.gov system.
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.”
MNsure price hikes raise politicians’ ire
Insurers' increases fuel the debates over MNsure's sustainability.
Education standoff may yield special session
Gov. Mark Dayton is threatening to veto a compromise education budget if legislators don’t rise closer to his spending level, and has said he is willing to call a special session to get his way.
Leitz departure comes at another critical time for MNsure
The sudden transition was only slightly smoother than when Leitz himself had taken over following the sudden resignation of April Todd-Malmlov.
Leitz to resign as MNsure chief executive
Scott Leitz leaving is the third leadership shakeup at the beleaguered agency in less than two years.
Bills have divergent health and human services visions
The bills' wildly divergent conditions stem partly from the budget targets set by their respective caucuses, with the Senate looking to spend $343 million in surplus funds and the House trying to find more than $500 million in savings
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.
Non-budget disputes unsettled
A variety of hot-button policy issues remain unsettled this session, and the gulf between positions taken by the governor and either or both legislative chambers leaves just about many of those proposals in jeopardy.
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