E Relating to health ARTICLE 1 - PURPOSE Creating the Minnesota universal health board to provide a single +publicly financed statewide program of comprehensive coverage for necessary +health care services for Minnesota residents ARTICLE 2 � REGIONAL BOARDSRequiring the commissioner of health to divide the state into a +certain number of regions and the regions to establish regional boards, specifying +powers and membership requirements and duties; specifying a budget +implementation schedule to be followed by the commissioner and the boards, requiring the +universal health board to recommend in the annual report due on a certain +future date setting of the budgets annually or biennially ARTICLE 3 � MINNESOTA UNIVERSAL HEALTH BOARD Defining certain terms; specifying Minnesota universal health board +membership eligibility, composition and duties, requiring annual reports to the legislature and governor and administrative support from the +commissioner of health, authorizing rules; specifying a schedule for implementation +of the Minnesota universal health program by the board and the commissioner; establishing the Minnesota health care trust fund and the prevention,+ health services, capital, interpretation, communication and transportation, +program administration, evaluation, planning and assessment and medical +research accounts within the fund to be used for certain specified purposes; +specifying certain citizenship or residency requirements for eligibility under +the universal health program; authorizing payment for out of state care +provided to state residents and coverage using a sliding fee scale to +nonresidents employed in the state, requiring care to and billing of nonresidents in need +of emergency services; specifying covered and excluded services, +requiring the board to establish a benefits advisory committee; providing for +choice of providers; prohibiting duplicate coverage; specifying certain +provider responsibilities and providing for reimbursement to providers under +the program, prohibiting providers from charging rates higher than the +negotiated reimbursement rates or from charging separately for services, +authorizing election for reimbursement on a capitation basis in place of fee for +service reimbursement; requiring the board to adopt rules to establish a +review and approval process for regional boards; requiring the commissioner to +study statewide health care spending to enable the board to establish and +enforce the state and regional health care budgets; providing for funding of the +universal health program through the consolidation of funding from existing +state and federal programs and a designated progressive income tax, prohibiting copayments, deductibles or other out of pocket payments by +individuals for services; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to establish+ specific public health goals (ra, ja)