American Experiment on Health Care
Health Care Reports
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Working Paper: Three Strategies for Implementing a State Exchange
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...
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Serious problems with the Health and Human Services omnibus bill
The 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 delive...
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A Conversation about Canadian and American Health Care with Lee Kurisko, M.D.
Lee Kurisko is a Canadian radiologist who formerly practiced in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as director of diagnostic imaging for Thunder Bay Regional Hospital....
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Health Care Articles
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Counterpoint: Gov. Dayton’s attack on Republican leader’s truthfulness is absurd
He’s wrong on several points, and unhelpful. In “Don’t believe Republicans: MNsure isn’t the problem” (Oct. 19), Gov. Mark Dayton levied a harsh attack on the truthfulness of statement...
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Medicaid Estate Claims: Not the Debt but the Surprise that’s the Problem
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people who enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure are making a shocking discovery: The state has placed a claim on their estate for the c...
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People enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure discover their assets are subject to estate claims
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people ...
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Health Care Posts
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Disruptions in the health care system have caused a spike in deaths caused by heart conditions and other medical issues
Before lockdowns were instated and hospitals repositioned to focus on COVID-19, warnings were issued on the potential economic, mental, social, and health consequences of instating lockdowns. These pr...
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What is Gov. Walz doing with his emergency powers?
The numbers show that the pandemic just isn't 'exploding' here in the way the models driving Gov. Walz' decisions forecast. And where he actually could do some good, in our state's long term care faci...
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Minnesota’s shortage of trained ICU nurses shows why we should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact
Minnesota needs qualified ICU nurses to help fight Covid-19. Membership of the national Nurse Licensure Compact would make that easier. ...
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The state government’s handling of Minnesota’s care homes has been a disaster
For Covid-19, Minnesota's care homes are some of the most deadly in the United States. Why is that?...
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Minnesota’s long-term care homes are dangerous
Outside of these facilities Minnesota is safer than average, but data shows that we're failing to protect those most vulnerable....
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Health Care Media
AEI Forum: Getting Beyond Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (1:50:24)
Peter Nelson joins a panel of experts to examines the potential and limits for insurance coverage innovations such as private exchanges, defined contribution payments, and corporate purchaser allianc...