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This bill establishes several new programs and modifies existing ones: - It creates a transitional cost-sharing reduction subsidy of $75 per month for eligible individuals enrolled in gold-level health plans through MNsure for the 2023 and 2024 plan years. - It creates a transitional premium subsidy of $125 per month for qualified individuals enrolled in bronze, silver, gold, or platinum level health plans, effective from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024. - It expands eligibility for MinnesotaCare to include individuals with incomes above the current limits, allowing them to enroll through a new "public option" program. - It modifies the MinnesotaCare premium scale, continuing the simplified scale established under the American Rescue Plan Act for 2021-2022, and establishing a new scale for the public option enrollees effective January 1, 2025. - It establishes a small employer transitional health care tax credit allowing small businesses to claim a credit for 50% of their qualified employee health care expenses in 2023 and 2024. - It requires the Commissioner of Human Services to develop a small employer public option to allow employees of businesses with fewer than 50 employees to receive employer contributions toward MinnesotaCare. The bill also requires the Commissioner to seek federal approvals and waivers necessary to implement these changes and continue federal funding for the MinnesotaCare program.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0011&ssn=0&y=2021