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Introduced
01/05/2023
01/05/2023
In Committee
04/12/2023
04/12/2023
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
05/20/2024
05/20/2024
Introduced Session
93rd Legislature 2023-2024
Bill Summary
A bill for an act relating to health; establishing an easy enrollment health insurance outreach program; providing for a state-funded cost-sharing reduction program for enrollees of certain health plans through MNsure; establishing the Health Care Affordability Board and Health Care Affordability Advisory Council; requiring monitoring of and recommendations related to health care market trends; requiring reports; providing for civil penalties; modifying premium scale; establishing requirements for a transition to a public option; requiring recommendations for and studies of alternative payment models; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 62K.15; 62U.04, subdivision 11; 256.962, subdivision 5; 256B.04, by adding a subdivision; 256B.056, subdivision 7; 256B.0631, by adding a subdivision; 256L.04, subdivisions 7a, 10, by adding a subdivision; 256L.07, subdivision 1; 256L.15, subdivision 2; 270B.14, by adding a subdivision; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 62J; 62V; 290; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256B.0631, subdivisions 1, 2, 3.
AI Summary
This bill establishes an easy enrollment health insurance outreach program to reduce the number of uninsured Minnesotans and increase access to affordable health insurance coverage through MNsure. It provides for a state-funded cost-sharing reduction program for certain enrollees of qualified health plans through MNsure. The bill also establishes the Health Care Affordability Board and Health Care Affordability Advisory Council to monitor health care market trends, make recommendations for reform, and establish health care spending growth targets. It modifies premium scales for MinnesotaCare and prohibits cost-sharing and deductibles for medical assistance recipients. The bill further directs the commissioner of human services to seek federal approval to transition MinnesotaCare to a public option and requires an analysis of the benefits and costs of a universal health care system proposal.
Committee Categories
Budget and Finance, Business and Industry, Government Affairs, Health and Social Services
Sponsors (5)
Last Action
Comm report: To pass and re-referred to Finance (on 04/12/2023)
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