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We must stem the meteoric rise of health care costs and improve accessibility for all Minnesotans. Health premiums and out of pocket expenses have soared, with the rate increases slowing only because the insured pay higher co-payments and deductibles. As a result, fewer employers offer health insurance and 77,000 more Minnesotans are uninsured. The cost of health care is the largest tax on business and the most common cause of family bankruptcy. This is unconscionable. Here’s what we can do: • Adopt a false claims act and whistleblower law.

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rdfs:comment	We must stem the meteoric rise of health care costs and improve accessibility for all Minnesotans. Health premiums and out of pocket expenses have soared, with the rate increases slowing only because the insured pay higher co-payments and deductibles. As a result, fewer employers offer health insurance and 77,000 more Minnesotans are uninsured. The cost of health care is the largest tax on business and the most common cause of family bankruptcy. This is unconscionable. Here’s what we can do: • Adopt a false claims act and whistleblower law.
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abstract	We must stem the meteoric rise of health care costs and improve accessibility for all Minnesotans. Health premiums and out of pocket expenses have soared, with the rate increases slowing only because the insured pay higher co-payments and deductibles. As a result, fewer employers offer health insurance and 77,000 more Minnesotans are uninsured. The cost of health care is the largest tax on business and the most common cause of family bankruptcy. This is unconscionable. Here’s what we can do: • The State should negotiate lower prices for prescription drug medication on behalf of all Minnesota consumers. Prescription drugs compose 20 percent of the health dollar and is the fastest growing sector in health care. • Reduce the size of our uninsured population. The larger the uninsured population, the higher the premium increases on people who are insured. This effect is due to cost shifting. There are three groups who represent the uninsured and underinsured population in Minnesota: + Working Poor - currently, there is a $100 million surplus in the Health Care Access Fund. This surplus should be applied to the MinnesotaCare program to cover more of our “working poor”. + Young Adults - Minnesota law mandates that students between the ages of 18 and 25 be covered under their parent’s policy. Many states have removed the education requirement and Minnesota should do this as well. + Small Employers -should be able to stabilize their premiums by being able to purchase coverage for high-risk employees from the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association (MCHA). • Our Attorney General (AG) audits of the three largest HMOs and two largest hospital systems revealed that up to 40 percent of the health dollar is spent on administration costs. By changing the governance of these institutions, we hopefully can dramatically reduce administrative costs. Some states now appoint members of such institutions in order to make them more accountable. We should consider this option. • Adopt the 75 recommendations from our AG audit report to the Pawlenty Administration. These recommendations range from pension rules to better financial accounting to placing caps on net worth (our HMOs and BCBSM have the highest net worth to premium ratio in the country). • Adopt a false claims act and whistleblower law. • Review the concept of Centers of Excellence as it relates to diagnostic centers and health provider clinics. Containing health care costs will help preserve and build a middle class in Minnesota—under a Hatch Administration we will get results.

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