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All about the Healthcare and the Minnesota Legislature

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Tune in this week to hear about what has been happening at the Minnesota Legislature on the Healthcare issue.  Sweeping changes are being proposed that will affect how health care is delivered and paid for in the State of Minnesota.

Guests: Rep. Matt Dean (R-Dellwood); Free Market Institute Senior Policy Fellow Craig Westover and David W. Allen, President of the Minnesota Physician-Patient Alliance. 

Highlights and Newsmakers reel:

•  David asks Rep. Dean about how the proposed healthcare bills plan to cut costs. (1 minute 30 seconds)
•  David talks with Rep. Dean about how the the bills are getting rushed throught he legislature. (1 minute 20 seconds)
•  David Allen and Craig Westover discuss the implications of the proposed healthcare legislation. (3 minutes, 40 seconds)

Read more for a list of Resources on this important topic!

Government proposals:

• The Healthcare Transformation Taskforce web site http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpsc/hep/transform/
• Links to Healthcare bills 

1. HF 3391 Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange; state health care programs affordability expansion; health improvement fund establishment; health care transformation commission creation; section 125 plans http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?Billnumber=HF+3391&ls_year=85&session_year=2007&session_number=0&Go.x=17&Go.y=5
2. SF 3099 (Companion to HF 3391) http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/bills/billnum.asp?

Billnumber=SF3099&ls_year=85&session_year=2007&session_number=0&Go.x=29&Go.y=15

Commentary

• Craig Westover (Minnesota Free Market Institute) columns in the Pioneer Press

1. “The devil’s not in the details” http://www.mnfmi.org/policy-areas/healthcare/47-healthcare/152-the-devils-not-in-the-details-but-sitting-in-plain-sight.html
2. “A sow’s ear of corporate socialism” http://www.mnfmi.org/policy-areas/healthcare/47-healthcare/153-a-sows-ear-of-corporate-socialism.html

• Peter Nelson (Center of the American Experiment) op ed in the Star Tribune. http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/17032156.html
• Twila Brase (Center for Choice in Healthcare)  review of Transformation Taskforce recommendations. http://www.cchconline.org/pr/pr013108.php
• Interviews with Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Delano) and House Deputy Minority Leader and Twila Brase of CCH at the Minnesota Majority website. http://www.minnesotamajority.org/Home/tabid/112/EntryID/55/Default.aspx
• Dr. Robert Geist op ed in the Pioneer Press http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_8706878  

Podcasts of previous show guests on consumer driven healthcare

• Dr. Regina Herzlinger (Manhattan Institute and Harvard University) author of Who Killed Heathcare? http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=16&ContentGuid=8ea74b7b-757d-4346-b24c-2c0ce37a43b5
• Michael Cannon (Cato Institute)  author of Healthy Competition, Second Edition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It. http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=16&ContentGuid=36ee9d4e-1463-4718-a13c-8e12af78da1f
• Dr. David Grazer (Manhattan Institute) author of The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=16&ContentGuid=192aaba9-7ab0-43d8-a7de-9a39d7215b73
• Jim Frogue of the Center for Healthcare Transformation. http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=16&ContentGuid=36ee9d4e-1463-4718-a13c-8e12af78da1f

Recommended books on the issue of consumer driven healthcare.

Cross posted at the Minnesota Free Market Institute