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Franken: $1.6 Million Available For Community Health Clinics

Senator Al Franken announced Friday that 16 Minnesota community health centers will be eligible to apply for more than $1.6 million in funds to help uninsured patients. According to Sen. Franken’s office, the funds are a portion of the $150 million made available to help community health centers via the 2010 health reform law. Franken says community health centers regularly help uninsured citizens, and the funding will help them to continue their important work.

2013/05/10

Minneapolis Urban League Hosting Forum On MNsure

The Minneapolis Urban League is hosting a forum on MNsure, the state’s new online marketplace for health insurance.

2013/04/29

Moneyanswers Finance Expert Jordan Goodman

Jordan Goodman from Moneyanswers.com made his monthly visit to the WCCO Morning News with Dave Lee.

2013/04/09

Gov. Dayton Signs Health Exchange Bill

Minnesotans will be able to buy health insurance online through a state-based marketplace called MNsure, starting in 2014.

2013/03/20

Minn. Health Exchange Bill Gets Last Capitol Vote

The bill creating a new way to obtain health insurance for more than a million Minnesotans is getting its last vote in the Legislature.

2013/03/18

Lawmakers Debate Online Health Insurance Shopping

State lawmakers are in the midst of a heated debate Monday night that could affect a million Minnesotans. It’s the centerpiece of the new federal health care law that would create an online system to buy health care insurance.

2013/03/04

Obamacare supporters celebrate the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Health Act on June 28, 2012 in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

ObamaCare 101: Separating Fact From Fiction

What does ObamaCare mean for you? The more you understand, the better you’ll fare.

2013/02/28

Officials Find Way To Preserve MinnesotaCare

State and federal officials have come up with a way to preserve Minnesota’s subsidized health care plan for the working poor when the federal health overhaul takes effect, Minnesota’s human services commissioner said Wednesday.

2013/02/07

Minn. Building New Health Insurance Marketplace

Big changes are coming in how a fourth of all Minnesotans get health insurance as the state rushes to build a new kind of marketplace that will help about 1.3 million people choose their best coverage options.

2013/01/27

Feds Give Minnesota $39M For Health Insurance Exchange

The federal government has given Minnesota a $39 million grant to continue developing the health insurance exchange that’s a major part of the Obama administration’s health care overhaul.

2013/01/17

Franken: Details Coming On Health Care Changes

Minnesota Sen. Al Franken says he thinks the Obama administration will soon release details of how states can provide health insurance to lower-income people as part of the federal healthcare overhaul.

2013/01/11

Minn. Health Insurance Panel Assesses Next Steps

A Minnesota task force helping craft a health insurance marketplace is discussing its next steps.

2012/11/20

Minnesota Ready For Deadline On Health Marketplace

Minnesota is ahead of many other states facing a federal deadline to declare whether they will set up a health care marketplace to help people and small businesses get private insurance.

2012/11/16