1E Relating to health

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTHIER MINNESOTANS

Requiring the commissioner of health in consultation with a Minnesota health improvement partnership to develop and implement a coordinated statewide action plan for improving the health status of Minnesotans for cost reduction purposes, specifying certain plan requirements, requiring encouragement and facilitation of the formation of local public private partnerships for action on certain goals; requiring the commissioner to establish a public health challenge grant fund and program for grants to the partnerships to support collaborative actions to reduce the rate of increase in health care costs through improvements in health status or the prevention of illness and injury, specifying certain grant program and match requirements, requiring the commissioner and the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) to enter into agreements with grantees for the payment of a certain percentage of savings in health coverage programs to the challenge grant fund; requiring the state agency commissioners serving on the governor's health care cabinet in cooperation with certain organizations to identify and contract with a private nonprofit organization to serve as a statewide source of comparative information on health care costs and quality for both ambulatory and inpatient care; appropriating money from the health care access fund to the commissioner of health for the challenge grant fund, requiring repayment

ARTICLE 2 - HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM

Providing for universal health coverage, requiring state residents to obtain and maintain health coverage by a certain date; specifying certain secure benefit set and guaranteed issue requirements of health plan companies, regulating community rate bands; providing an income tax subtraction for health coverage premiums; requiring the commissioner of commerce to present to the legislature by a certain date a plan for reactivating the reinsurance pool and converting the pool for high cost cases; requiring the commissioner of health to prepare a submit to the legislature by a certain date a report with recommendations and proposed legislation for enforcing the requirement for continuous health coverage; requiring the commissioners of health, human services, labor and industry, employee relations (DOER), corrections, commerce and administration and the Minnesota comprehensive health association board of directors in consultation with a panel of health care providers and policy experts to define a secure benefit set including preventive health services and prescription drug and catastrophic health coverage, requiring commissioners submission of the benefit set to the legislature by a certain date
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