Mn. Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill

After long debate going well into the night, the DFL-controlled Minnesota Senate passed a bill to set up a health insurance marketplace where Minnesotans can choose among insurance products pre-screened by a special board.

 

 

 

 

(St. Paul, Mn) -- After long debate going well into the night, the DFL-controlled Minnesota Senate passed a bill to set up a health insurance marketplace where Minnesotans can choose among insurance products pre-screened by a special board.

Republicans object that a seven-person board will decide what health insurance offerings are available to an estimated one-point-two million Minnesotans who will use the marketplace.

Senate Minority Leader David Hann says it's the strangest marketplace he's ever seen.

Eagan democrat Jim Carlson responds the objective is not to have thousands of different health insurance policies available.

Carlson says the board is charged with "trying to filter out those policies for Minnesotans that perhaps are a poor value."

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