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New website for HMO junkies
Responding to concerns that the state's HMOs are too secretive about their contracts and profits from big state health programs, the state has launched a new website rich with financial data, care-quality measurements and other information on the plans that cover 580,000 low-income Minnesotans.
Updated: May 05, 2011, - 07:56 PM
Dayton to HMOs: Put in your bid
The governor projected big savings for taxpayers when plans must compete for state business.
Updated: May 02, 2011, - 11:48 AM
Starting young with Alzheimer's
Diagnosed in his 50s with Alzheimer's disease, supported by family and friends, John Frei is adapting.
Updated: April 24, 2011, - 11:40 PM
Advice from people with memory loss
A local group offers help to people who don't know how to engage effectively with those with the disease.
Updated: April 24, 2011, - 07:49 PM
DFL, GOP both open to deal on health vouchers
Different motivation, same end result: Nation's first such plan.
Updated: April 20, 2011, - 10:08 PM
U leading evolution of end-of-life care
Chronically ill patients at the University of Minnesota Medical Center are far less likely to die in the hospital than those at most other academic medical centers, according to a new national study of end-of-life care.
Updated: April 14, 2011, - 05:45 PM
Health coverage for $240 a month
Aspects of a GOP privatization plan could become law, meaning low-income people could be shopping for plans with vouchers.
Updated: April 06, 2011, - 09:48 PM
Senate OKs cuts in care for poor
The GOP aims to cut $1.6 billion, partly by shifting thousands of people from state health plans to private ones.
Updated: March 30, 2011, - 11:37 PM
Senate committee passes deep-cutting health bill
The bill would cut $1.6 billion from projected spending and convert parts of Medicaid and MinnesotaCare to a voucher system.
Updated: March 25, 2011, - 09:35 PM
House committee OKs health/human services cutbacks
The Republican bill would spend $10.7 billion, cutting $1.6 billion of projected spending for the next two years.
Updated: March 24, 2011, - 09:36 PM
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