Nancy Feldman, past president of the Minnesota Council of Health Plans, is best known as the long-time CEO of UCare. After she retired in 2014, Nancy established a fund to help victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam, and collaborates with the Center for Victims of Torture and other charitable organizations. “If I could do one thing immediately to improve health care in Minnesota,” Nancy says, “it would be to make everybody eligible for health care. I’d do away with all the complete waste that’s responsible for determining who’s eligible for what.” She looks to the German health system for inspiration: “In Germany, you’re born, you’re eligible.”
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2019
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Premium Security Program (reinsurance) cost is 50 percent less than expected
St. Paul, Minn.—It’s not often there is good news about the expense of medical care and health insurance premiums. But today the Minnesota Council of Health Plans has good news. Expenses in the state program that helps pay high medical bills for people who buy their own insurance are about half the amount expected. That […]
2018
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Toolkit will help employers fight opioids
Saint Paul, Minn. — Today the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Business Partnership released a toolkit to help employers fight opioids.
Here’s the information.
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13 million visits for care in six month
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’re hospitalized are all down on average compared to […]
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Council statement on CMS Federal Risk Adjustment change
”It’s ridiculous. Three federal programs that helped people get insurance have been replaced by a single question mark. And that affects people in communities across our state.
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Statement on 2019 insurance premiums for people who buy their own insurance
“While people in other states are seeing double-digit increases in health insurance premiums for 2019, we aren’t.”
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2019
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Star Tribune Commentary
Minnesota’s reinsurance program should be renewed
It lowers premiums for people who buy their own insurance and requires no new money.
2018
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Star Tribune
Clinics report sharp slowdown in medical spending growth
Find out how expensive care is at your clinic compared to other clinics nearby. The Star Tribune article has a summary, and you can find the original details by clicking here.
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Star Tribune
The problem today isn’t getting health care; it’s paying for it
We sorely need policy discussions that lead to practical actions, with clear-eyed recognition of the trade offs.
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National Public Radio
Investigation: Patients’ Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced By Drugmakers
A Center for Public Integrity and NPR investigation found drug companies have infiltrated nearly every part of the process that determines how their drugs will be covered by taxpayers: giving free dinners and consulting gigs to many doctors on the obscure committees advising state Medicaid programs; asking speakers who don’t disclose their financial ties with drug companies to testify about their drugs; and paying for state Medicaid officials to attend all-inclusive conferences where they can mingle with drug representatives.
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Star Tribune
Subsidies drive consumer decisions
More Minnesotans get help paying premiums each month