Democrats’ focus on a small portion of subsidies ignores what is driving the exploding costs of federalized health care.
The DNR is having a rough year. Arrested development: DNR’s licensing app The list of highly promoted state government website rollouts that have crashed and burned over the years is…
Individual Health Plans Jump up to 26% Buried in the last-minute deal to prevent a government shutdown, Governor Walz and legislative leaders created a new tax on health plans to…
The list of highly promoted rollouts of state government websites that have crashed and burned over the years runs long. The disastrous 2013 MNsure website debut cost the executive director…
The CEO of the Minnesota-based free-food behemoth Second Harvest Heartland announced that she will be stepping down from her position. Allison O’Toole will be leaving the organization after leading it…
You’d think state government techies and their overly compensated superiors would learn by now, but no such luck. The much-hyped unveiling of the Minnesota Department of Revenue website to apply…
On Wednesday, I wrote that the payroll tax imposed to fund Minnesota’s new Paid Family and Medical leave (PFML) program will be 37% higher in 2027 than when it was…
Although neither the organization nor any of its staff have been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing, the nonprofit Somali Community Resettlement Services appears in a recently-filed Feeding Our…
Last week Gov. Tim Walz announced that a record 146,445 people signed up to buy health insurance through MNsure during the annual open enrollment period that ended on January 15.…
Yesterday the MN Senate held a hearing on their omnibus commerce finance bill. This bill starts to show a clearer picture of where the DFL wants to take Minnesota’s health…
A new trend emerged this week in the Minnesota legislature as Democrats ram through their agenda at record speed. The lack of fiscal notes.
This morning, HF2, the proposal for paid family and medical leave, sailed through its fifth House committee hearing. Perhaps one reason for its speedy passage is that it isn’t weighted…
Some 80 percent of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce’s members already offer paid family leave to employees. Yet Gov. Tim Walz and DFL legislators plan to impose a new $1…
What will the DFL’s paid family and medical leave mean for you? One of the centerpieces of Gov. Walz’s “One Minnesota” budget is its proposal for paid family and medical…
President Biden is, once again, undermining the rule of law. This month the Biden administration finalized a rule that will very likely add to its growing list of administrative actions…
Last week the White House released separate facts sheets for each state to highlight how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will lower health care costs and improve health coverage in…
Somebody should watch how they’re spending our money. Somebody is.
We’ve all heard about organizations “too big to fail.” But what about government agencies “too big to function?” That pretty well sums up the situation at the Minnesota Department of…
The state’s ineptitude grows.
After yesterday’s announcement that taxpayers are on the hook for another $23 million due to the Department of Human Service’s continued mismanagement of public funds, Center of the American Experiment…
This article appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota. To receive a free issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Minnesotans of a certain age will always…
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Minnesotans of a…
Nearly a decade of inept decision-making in St. Paul has produced a pile of scandals and epic policy disasters.
Healthcare coverage for the one million Minnesotans enrolled in Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare programs costs state taxpayers more than $5 billion a year. We already know from a past legislative…