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- Oppose health care taxes, mandates and regulations that increase the cost of care.
- Improve coverage options for employers and employees.
- Oppose the creation of a new, state-government run public option health insurance plan.
- Address the public benefits cliff that hampers Minnesotans’ economic upward mobility.
Business priorities
- Reinsurance continuation
- No new health insurance mandates
- No new health insurance / health care taxes
- Increased federal Medicaid funding for hospitals
- No public option
Policies we opposed
- 9 new health insurance mandates
- Many new health care/insurance regulations
- Several new or increased health care / health insurance taxes
Outcomes
- Reinsurance continued for 2026 & 2027
- New authority for hospitals to draw down increased Medicaid funds to offset commercial payer costs
- Public Option authority repealed
- No new health insurance mandates
- “Frozen Formulary” requirement only new HC reg to pass, limiting controls for prescription drug costs
- One new assessment on health insurers passed, raising insurance costs roughly $1.7 million a year
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