Health Insurance Coverage – Minnesota

Health coverage for $240 a month, By Warren Wolfe, April 6, 2011, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “In a pioneering bid to streamline the state’s big health insurance programs, the Legislature’s new Republican majority is poised to give thousands of low-income Minnesotans vouchers to buy coverage in the private marketplace. Republicans say the voucher plan, contained in a huge budget bill under debate Wednesday in the House, would cap the state’s liability, treat low-income people with respect by giving them responsibility for their own care, and unleash the power of competition to contain rising health care costs…”