Health Care Reform in Minnesota

Abstract

On April 23, Minnesota enacted complex and farreaching legislation to\nreform health care. The goals of the law are to contain costs and ensure that\nall Minnesotans have affordable insurance for basic outpatient and inpatient\nhealth care. Its major provisions reform health insurance practices, establish\na state-subsidized, sliding-scale health insurance plan, provide for regional\nplanning of the health care system, support endangered systems of rural health\ncare delivery, decrease the need for defensive medical practices, establish a\ndata base on the provision and outcome of health care, and propose to\nconsolidate the state's health care bureaucracy.