Minnesota Budget Bites

Policymakers can build on Minnesota’s historic progress in increasing access to affordable health care by restoring...

A lot has changed in the 24 years since the Health Care Access Fund (HCAF) was created to expand access to health care....

Health insurance is a basic necessity — and if you don’t have it, Minnesota’s nation-leading health care system might as well be an ocean away. Significant disparities in the health insurance coverage rates of different racial and ethnic groups in Minnesota mean that a large number of our neighbors struggle to get the health care they need for themselves and their families.

When the lottery of life leaves a Minnesotan injured or ill, they should have affordable access to Minnesota’s first-ra...