Minnesota motorists can’t get a break. The Dayton Administration’s Department of Public Safety continues to struggle to salvage the disastrous roll-out of the motor and vehicle registration system that has…
Democrats are desperate to deflect responsibility for the monumental meltdown of the MNLARS vehicle registration system under the Dayton administration’s bungling bureaucracy. Legislative leaders are working on a measure to…
Should Minnesota taxpayers give Gov. Dayton what amounts to a blank check for tens of millions of dollars to fix the disastrous MNLARS vehicle registration computer system already botched by…
The heat’s on at Driver and Vehicle Services. Not only over the botched roll-out of the new and not-so-improved high-tech MNLARS vehicle registration system that continues to cause chaos at…
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans have been traumatized by a close encounter with the state’s new dysfunctional vehicle licensing system. It’s so bad that Gov. Dayton recently apologized for the…
The state’s new online vehicle registration system was tens of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. But the Department of Public Safety rolled out the first phase…
After string of IT disasters, have state agencies learned any lessons?
Saving the individual health insurance market from imploding under the weight of Obamacare regulations topped the Legislature’s list of to-dos this year. In January, a bipartisan bill passed to provide…
Today’s Star Tribune carries two articles that echo what we have been saying for a long time: liberal policies have little appeal for small-town and rural voters. The first article…
The loss of healthy enrollment leads to such an expensive risk pool that no one can afford to buy coverage, thus killing the market.
Hidden MNsure Costs lead to higher property taxes
Obamacare is a disaster, and MNSure is a fiasco. Pretty much all Minnesotans know that. Obamacare/MNSure has led to higher premiums, larger deductibles and smaller networks. This fall the crisis…
One of the biggest questions raised by the election results this week is what it all means for the unpopular MNsure state health insurance exchange. Minnesota was among a handful…
Patient Daily identifies the six states that have seen the largest increases in premium costs under Obamacare. Happily, Minnesota doesn’t make the cut: Nationwide, health insurance costs are up by…
Thousands of Minnesotans already traumatized by up to 67 percent increases in individual health premiums experienced another shock today. The MNsure state health insurance exchange and help center intermittently crashed…
Steep Affordable Care Act premium hikes and declining options through the MNsure state health insurance exchange have made headlines for days. Rate increases of 50 to 67 percent on the…
This piece originally appeared in the Star Tribune on October 21, 2016. He’s wrong on several points, and unhelpful. In “Don’t believe Republicans: MNsure isn’t the problem” (Oct. 19), Gov.…
The Star Tribunal Editorial Board recently tried to clear up a few “misunderstood health-care realities” about Minnesota’s troubled individual insurance market. Their editorial took subtle aim at countering criticisms of President…
Gov. Mark Dayton may regret his unusually blunt and candid assessment that “the reality is the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people.” It’s true,…
By now most Minnesotans realize the Affordable Care Act has drastically increased the cost of healthcare coverage for many, while at the same time decreasing coverage choices. Governor Mark Dayton…
Three years after a disastrous launch, the MNsure state health care exchange’s IT system (METS) remains so dysfunctional that county officials still struggling to implement it openly question whether the…
Three years after a disastrous launch, the MNsure state health care exchange’s IT system (METS) remains so dysfunctional that county officials still struggling to implement it openly question whether the…
Back in June, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota announced it was pulling out of Minnesota’s individual insurance market due to heavy losses. As a result, 103,000 policy holders will…
The Star Tribune editorial board continues to think ideological blinders are still in fashion. That’s my main takeaway from their recent editorial on Minnesota’s individual insurance market. The editorial highlights the…