“The Minnesota approach is working. Health care is still too expensive, but Minnesota is doing better than most states to keep a handle on rising insurance premiums for people who buy insurance on their own.”

Today the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Business Partnership released a toolkit to help employers fight opioids. Here’s the information. The toolkit includes information on five concrete actions employers can take to prevent and address drug among employees: Change the conversation around opioid use disorder and reduce stigma Promote safe use, storage and […]

So far in 2018, we’ve been to see a doctor or others who provide care more than 13 million times. We’ve been admitted to the hospital about 124,000 times, spending nearly 600,000 days hospitalized. While the number of visits, hospital admissions and length of time we were hospitalized are all down on average compared to […]

This Wall Street Journal story about the cost vs price of knee replacements is getting a lot of comments (527 and counting) and letters to the editor, too. Here’s a PDF of the story if you don’t have your WSJ subscription handy.

A type of health insurance, short term limited duration, has been in the news a lot lately. Here’s what the Minnesota Department of Commerce has to say about buying those policies in Minnesota.