Posted on 09/27/2010 11:13:42 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
BRAINERD — The three major candidates for governor on Friday offered widely varying prescriptions for providing health care coverage for all Minnesotans. Speaking to about 500 hospital administrators and service providers for the aging at Madden's resort here, Democrat Mark Dayton, Republican Tom Emmer and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner agreed the next governor should try to make health insurance more affordable and accessible. Although nearly one in 10 Minnesotans lacks health coverage, Dayton said the state has one of the lowest rates of uninsured in the nation because it has developed innovative programs such as MinnesotaCare, which provides subsidized insurance for the working poor, and General Assistance Medical Care for poor, single adults who don't qualify for federal health programs.
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Funny thing about this insurance stuff, the lower the risk and the less insurance you want, the cheaper it is.
Really, they agreed on that huh? So no one is runny on a platform of making health insurance really expensive and inaccesible? Shocking.
runny = running. Funniest typo I’ve had in a while. Should generate some interesting comments.
How about convincing the federal government to let people purchase insurance across state lines?
this is MN.
we’ll probably copy Massoftwochits.
Mark Dayton is...but he’s running from everything.
Affordable doesn’t mean the same thing as cost shifting. In my mind, the single best thing that could have been done to promote insurance was tort-reform, followed closely by inter-state competition and the promotion of high-deductible policies that are really insurance rather than disguised maintenance plans combined with a bit of insurance.
How enlightening of them. /sarc
TENNCARE is about to bankrupt the state of TN and we are cut and gutting it because it is to full of fraud and waste.
they never address “affordable” for whom? the unemployed? a family of 9 making $20k/ year?
the ‘evil’ rich making $70k+ a year?
A headline only a graduate of a failing public school could love. Why not get into the real issues, like:
Gov. candidates agree gravity is a law
or
Gov. candidates agree beer should be free
It would be as meaningful. Pathetic.
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