MN Health Coverage Marketplace Launches Web Site
Minnesota's health insurance exchange has launched a new web site to connect with more than 1 million Minnesotans who are expected to use the new marketplace to get coverage.
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Minnesota's health insurance exchange has launched a new web site to connect with more than 1 million Minnesotans who are expected to use the new marketplace to get coverage.
Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature's new Democratic majorities have made it clear: The session that starts Tuesday will be all about the state budget.
A labor contract covering 12,000 Twin Cities nurses has been approved.
Gov. Mark Dayton says he plans to include same-sex domestic partner benefits in Minnesota's state employee contracts.
Hundreds gathered outside the Wal-Mart store on Friday along University Avenue in St. Paul. They were some workers who had walked off the job, and others were members of labor unions lending their support.
Minnesota is ahead of many other states facing a federal deadline to declare whether they will set up a health care marketplace to help people and small businesses get private insurance.
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President Barack Obama's re-election is forcing the hand of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who had stopped all efforts to implement the federal health care reform law in the hopes that Republicans would take over in Washington.
Starting Wednesday, the Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to offer millions of women eight new health care prevention services, at no cost.
Republican lawmakers facing a critical legislative election season focused on taxes in the federal health care overhaul Monday as they attempt to bring a nationally charged issue — and the T-word — into state races.
Gov. Mark Dayton's administration says it picked a Virginia-based government services company for a $41 million contract to develop the online health insurance marketplace required by the federal health care overhaul.
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld Health Care Reform the political spin from both sides is in high gear.
President Barack Obama hailed the ruling as a "victory for the American people," taking credit for the individual mandate he once opposed, asserting that health coverage for millions is now more stable.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton bet big on the federal health care overhaul, drawing federal money to expand Medicaid early and preparing for the day when the full law takes effect.
As controversial as the law has been -- for those with severe disabilities or pre-existing conditions, or for young people who have been able to stay on their parents' health care until age 26 -- the law has already had a profound impact, and this ruling is a welcome one in some circles.
Gov. Mark Dayton has said little about what he will do once the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the federal health care overhaul, a decision anticipated on Thursday.
Republicans are united against the individual mandate. They call it "socialism" and an unconstitutional "government takeover". But the central pillar of President Obama's health care law came from "America's most-respected conservative thinkers." It's TRUE.
Minnesota is getting a big dose of advertising tied to the presidential race with a conservative group's new spot criticizing President Barack Obama's health care law.
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s first-quarter net income rose 3 percent as enrollment and revenue gains countered an increase in operating costs, and the health insurer raised its 2012 earnings forecast.
Minnesota will get more than $35 million from four health plans that voluntarily agreed to cap profits from care provided to people in public programs. The federal government is in line for a similar rebate.
The federal government is investigating how Minnesota administers Medicaid health coverage for poor people, but few details are available on the nature of the inquiry.
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing Accretive Health Incorporation, a debt collection agency. It stems from an incident last year when someone stole a laptop with medical information for more than 23,000 North Memorial and Fairview patients.
Approximately 33 million Americans put money away every paycheck before the taxes are taken out to be used for glasses, braces or doctor's visits. Flexible spending accounts (FSA) are a good way to save money on taxes, and save up for medical expenses.
A battle is brewing over whether Minnesota can choose to design and run a pillar of the federal health care overhaul or must cede control to Washington.
Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," blaming it in part for the United States' ballooning budget deficit.
