MNsure, the state-run health insurance exchange, would be eliminated in a human services budget the Republican-controlled Minnesota House passed Friday. Governor Mark Dayton argues MNsure is functioning very well and federal exchange has its own challenges. Dayton asks, “Do you think you’re gonna get better attention through that kind of much, much larger operation?” Dellwood Republican Matt Dean responds Dayton predicted over 600 thousand people would buy health insurance through MNsure and it didn’t happen. Dean says the Republican plan “cuts ’em loose from having to deal with the government and a broken website…. people who want to buy private health insurance the way they used to.”