[TurboZamboni]

Here is what the MN Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) principles actually propose (see official principles at end of email). In short:

HIX will support universal health care - socialized medicine. HIX will interfere in the patient-doctor relationship (delivery of medical care). HIX will enforce compliance-based payments on doctors based on government-defined "value." HIX will enforce "delivery mechanisms" that lead to government rationed care. HIX is not just for insurance, it's also for public program enrollment in food stamps. HIX lets more people access "financial assistance" (taxpayer-subsidized programs). HIX will gather data on race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation and gender and analyze medical records to "eliminate health disparities" in treatment (standardize care and insert the potential of civil rights litigation into exam rooms). HIX will be as "transparent" as it is today [The Star Tribune (Aug 2), St. Cloud Times (Aug 30) chastise the department for NON-transparency]. HIX promises to "manage" the competition of doctors/clinics/hospitals (providers) and health plans (payers), thereby eliminating market forces and real market choices. The deadline for your comments is Monday, September 24.

[Jacquerie]

Your legislature did not pass it? Then it is not a law and no court can legitimately fine or imprison anyone for not following the exec order.

[EGPWS]

He's happy to install the "centerpiece" of Obamacare in Minnesota at a taxpayer cost of $40 million - $80 million per year to operate it.

Is THAT all that free healthcare costs?

[txrefugee]

Let’s all stand back and watch these ObamaBot states go broke. TX will never agree to this unhealthy expenditure of taxpayer money.

[coder2]

I cannot begin to say how happy that I am that I moved out of Minnesota (born and raised --- lived there for half a century). The slow choking of individual liberty in this state has been going on for years. Leave it to (chicken-sh##) dayton to become obamalite and implement something that hasn't been formally introduced into law. But from the rumors that I hear, MN may go back to full DFL rule this election. Whew, glad I'm outta there.

Happily ensconced in Wyoming now, where freedom still means something.

[The Great RJ]

Where is Gov. Dayton getting the funds to implement this Exchange? Doesn’t the Legislature have to appropriate the money as part of its budget? Without Legislative action I see this whole thing as illegal