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Enjoy low health care premiums while you can, Minnesota

WEBEnjoy low health care premiums while you can, Minnesota. A new policy briefing released today from Center of the American Experiment shows Minnesota healthcare premiums will remain among the lowest in the nation, largely due to the state’s reinsurance program, first implemented in 2018. Average weighted premiums from …

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Making health care prices more transparent in Minnesota

WEB2 • POLICY BRIEFING #010 | MAKING HEALTH CARE PRICES MORE TRANSPARENT IN MINNESOTA information to make sound, cost-conscious decisions. It would be truly bizarre to walk into a grocery store, load up your cart, and pay without

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Guidance to Congress on Health Care Price Transparency …

WEBSteps Congress should take to extend and strengthen the current rules CLICK HERE TO VIEW REPORT Executive Summary A package of bipartisan health policies is currently moving through the U.S. House of Representatives to strengthen federal price transparency requirements on providers and health plans. The House proposals …

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Minnesota Individual Health Insurance Outlook for 2024:

WEBMINNESOTA INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE OUTLOOK FOR 2024 | POLICY BRIEFING #017 5 the 31.2 percent market share for Minnesota’s largest insurer on the individual market was the fourth lowest in

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Making health care prices more transparent in Minnesota

WEBMAKING HEALTH CARE PRICES MORE TRANSPARENT IN MINNESOTA | POLICY BRIEFING #010 3 machine-readable data file with pricing for all items and services. This includes pricing for private health

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Pandemic exposes problem pair in Minnesota healthcare

WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some state policies in urgent need of reform. In the field of healthcare, two stand out. First, Minnesota should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact. When the pandemic hit, Minnesota needed all the qualified medical professionals it could get, but licensing proved to be an obstacle to qualified …

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AmericanExperiment.org Minnesota must lift its hospital …

WEB2 • policy briefing #004 | minnesota must lift its hospital moratorium states with con laws or similar regulations wa source: national academy for state health policy mt ca or id wy nv wv ut az co nm tx nd sd ne ks ok la ar mo ia mn wi mi …

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Telehealth could improve healthcare access in Rural …

WEBBefore the pandemic, health care access was tough in rural areas. And the pandemic has made that worse. However, the pandemic also accelerated the adoption of telehealth which could potentially serve as a solution to healthcare access issues that plague rural areas. All it requires is that the Minnesota legislature enacts policies that will …

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Who is hit hardest by COVID-19

WEBOutside of care homes, Minnesota has had 49,974 cases of Covid-19 and 328 deaths. In other words, just 0.7% of Covid-19 cases outside care homes have resulted in death in Minnesota. A care home case has a 27.2% chance of requiring hospitalization and 25.6% change of needing ICU treatment: outside of care homes, those numbers fall …

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MNsure enrolls millionaires in Medicaid and MinnesotaCare …

WEBThe Affordable Care Act was supposed to extend health coverage to millions—not millionaires. Yet while many families continue to struggle to afford medical insurance, some Minnesotans with millions in assets get free and low-cost subsidized health coverage through MNsure, the state health insurance exchange. “It’s happening …

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Three Strategies for Implementing a State Exchange

WEBA Center of the American Experiment Working Paper Executive Summary The Affordable Care Act asks states to set up insurance exchanges to “facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans.” The primary goal of an insurance exchange is to extend affordable health coverage to low-income households via Medicaid and federal premium …

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Biden suspends Georgia ACA waiver, putting the future of waivers …

WEBToday, the Biden administration suspended Georgia’s State Innovation Waiver, less than three months before it was set to go live. This action invites a legal fight and could potentially change the character of federal and state health care program partnerships permanently. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows states to waive certain …

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Biden rule unlawfully threatens penalties on States during …

WEBBiden rule unlawfully threatens penalties on States during Medicaid “unwinding” Photo: Medicaid by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images On Friday, American Experiment submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Human Services (HHS) in opposition to federal rules dictating how states must unwind …

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The return of the ‘death spiral’

WEBThe return of the ‘death spiral’. Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the health care pool, Biden’s ACA would take a bite out of affordability. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, threw the individual health insurance market in crisis. The Trump administration took strong

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Serious problems with the Health and Human Services omnibus bill

WEBThe House and Senate conferees on the Health and Human Services (HHS) omnibus supplemental budget bill finished their work late last night. The conferees managed to hit their budget targets and delivered a Conference Report that reduces the general fund deficit by $114 million in the current biennium and by $155 million in the …

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Vaccine mandates for health care workers might backfire

WEBWith COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surging, health care companies are taking numerous measures to control the virus. Those measures include encouraging workers to get vaccinated. The Mayo Clinic, for example, is calling for all workers to get vaccinated or go through a one-hour education session. Other companies, however, …

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Testimony on Behalf of The Healthy Minnesota Plan

WEBTestimony of Peter J. Nelson, J.D.Policy Fellow, Center of the American Experiment Health Care and Human Services Finance DivisionRE: HF 1865, The Healthy Minnesota PlanApril 30, 2009 Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good morning and thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Peter Nelson and I am a Policy …

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Minnesota’s officials need to be honest about Covid-19

WEBMinnesota’s officials need to be honest about Covid-19. On Monday, Bring Me the News reported: Minnesota health officials believe the partial shutdown of bars, restaurants and entertainment venues helped slow the spread of COVID-19 and send Minnesota into a better place than it was before Gov. Tim Walz ordered the shutdown …

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Does Minnesota need a basic income program

WEBNot only that, but. In addition to being an outlier in spending, Minnesota’s TANF income eligibility levels are also high. In 2019, the maximum monthly income that a family of three (with one parent) could earn and still be eligible for benefits was $2,231.22 This was the highest income limit in the country, and over two times higher than the …

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