The Democrat-controlled Minnesota House on a party-line vote Thursday night approved a major health and human services funding bill, which Rochester D-F-Ler Tina Liebling says “makes a great step toward the future of allowing every Minnesotan to get the health care that they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford.”
House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Daudt warns Democrats want to end the “reinsurance” program that’s proven to lower health insurance costs. “You’re replacing it with a subsidy program that will help fewer people, it will cost more than reinsurance, and it won’t stop health care costs from skyrocketing next year,” Daudt says.
But Democrats argue another year of “reinsurance” gives taxpayer dollars to insurance companies without fixing underlying problems that drive up health care costs.