Relating to health care reform; increasing affordability and eligibility for state health care programs; "Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange"; creating the health insurance exchange for the purpose of providing individuals with greater access, choice, portability, and affordability of health insurance products; allowing incorporation as a nonprofit corporation for tax purposes; regulating health plan company and health plan participation and availability; providing for comparison of health plans, individual and small employer participation and eligibility; specifying responsibilities of the exchange; providing for no state liability for exchange actions; providing for powers of exchange, dispute resolutions, governance, board membership and operations; providing for investment of assets, auditing, insurance producers and implementation requirements; providing for the sharing of certain welfare or health data; modifying and clarifying certain provisions relating to comprehensive health insurance and small employer insurance; continuing payment reform; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to the establishment of uniform definitions for the total cost of providing necessary services to a patient and developing a standard uniform method and format for providers to use for submitting package prices for the total cost of care, specifying certain availability requirements; requiring health care providers to establish package prices for the total cost of care by a certain date, requiring commissioner to establish certain quality measures, specifying certain information publication requirements; specifying certain individual market health plan purchasing and use requirements; establishing goals for universal coverage and a contingent individual responsibility mandate; establishing affordability standards for individuals and households with gross family incomes of a certain percentage of the federal poverty guidelines or less; providing for the exchange of certain private data; modifying certain verification of eligibility requirements for certain individuals for medical assistance coverage purposes; increasing the family income limit for child medical assistance eligibility purposes; increasing the inpatient hospital benefits limit for adult enrollees under MinnesotaCare, federal approval stipulation; modifying certain MinnesotaCare benefit plan co-payments and coinsurance requirements; increasing the family income limit for families with children and for single adults and households with no children for MinnesotaCare eligibility; providing for delayed verification; modifying certain MinnesotaCare general requirements; providing a first month premium exemption for new enrollee households of MinnesotaCare
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