House, Senate introduce bills to keep MinnesotaCare
House and Senate lawmakers want to move to the next stage of federal health care reforms without scrapping innovative state programs like MinnesotaCare.
The 20-year-old program, which provides affordable health coverage to lower-income Minnesotans, does not meet all the criteria of the current federal health care reforms. Rather than scrap the program and start again, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have petitioned the Obama administration for a waiver to allow the state to keep MinnesotaCare under the Affordable Care Act.
