Health insurance representatives, Republicans and a few DFLers hammered on the proposal for state-run health coverage, despite physicians and small business owners signaling the urgency of the issue.
Republicans and DFLers squared off in committee on Monday as the Minnesota Health Act, a bill to create a single payer health system in the state, got its first hearing. The ideological divide centered on DFLers who argued that health care should be a public good available to all, and Republicans asserted that the market, and to a small extent the government safety net, should determine the future of health care in Minnesota.
All sides agreed, however, that the current system of health coverage is broken.
The proposal for single-payer health care in Minnesota is seeing more profound support this year than in the previous fifteen years or so that the bill has been up for consideration.
It’s not often that bills in Senate committee hearings are greeted with an overflow crowd, but that was the case Monday as the Minnesota Health Plan was taken up by the Health, Housing and Family…
Several members of the Minnesota Legislature have embarked on a mission to build political support for the Minnesota Health Plan, a proposal that would create a central entity to manage the health insurance of every Minnesotan.…
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