The following article by Jennifer Brooks was posted on the Star Tribune website September 13, 2017:
U.S. senators hear from MNsure CEO while hammering out a bipartisan fix they hope could stabilize state insurance exchanges.
WASHINGTON – Minnesota’s efforts to drive down premiums for coverage sold on the state health insurance exchange could come undone by the end of the month unless the federal government acts.
After seven years of partisan wrangling over Obamacare, U.S. senators worked Tuesday to hammer out a bipartisan fix they hope could stabilize state insurance exchanges before millions of Americans are hit with rate hikes. The CEO of MNsure, Minnesota’s exchange, told a Senate panel Tuesday that the state may have mere days left to avoid the kind of hikes that state lawmakers took expensive steps to avoid earlier this year. Continue reading “Sen. Al Franken comes out for single-payer health-care plan offered by Bernie Sanders”