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...
Read full reportThe 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...
Read full reportLee Kurisko is a Canadian radiologist who formerly practiced in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as director of diagnostic imaging for Thunder Bay Regional Hospital....
Read full reportHe’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...
Read full articleThe 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...
Read full articleThe Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people ...
Read full articleCovid-19 non-ICU hospitalizations are also down, by 67% from their late November peak....
Read full postSensible policy will come from weighing the costs of policy actions against the benefits. Too often during this pandemic, policymakers have oversold the benefits and downplayed the costs. ...
Read full postMinnesota's record low flu season continues. Either the number of people suffering with seasonal flu isn't down - or at least isn't down by that much - but they are not being picked up in the numbers ...
Read full postMany states, including Minnesota, made temporary changes to their licensing requirements in health care in order to allow residents to access health care services from out of state providers during th...
Read full postMinnesota is lagging in its neighbors in administering the Covid-19 vaccine and Gov. Walz will only have the Trump administration to blame for another 48 hours. ...
Read full postPeter 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...