Health Care

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A healthier Minnesota starts with affordable health care

The ability to afford health care shouldn’t depend on someone’s paycheck or address. Our state has a history of investing in health care, healthy communities, and the well-being of Minnesotans. That’s paid off in strong rates of health care coverage. But there’s more to do, including dismantling barriers to living healthy lives that many people of color and people in rural areas face.

Our health care work focuses on the effects of state and federal health care policies on Minnesotans’ ability to live healthy lives and get the care they need to thrive.

Protecting health care for Minnesotans

Nearly 1.3 million Minnesotans — including children, older adults in nursing homes, people with disabilities, and families living on low incomes — receive health care and services through Minnesota’s Medicaid program, Medical Assistance (MA).

Right now, Congress is debating massive cuts to Medicaid, which would jeopardize the health care of the many Minnesotans who depend on Medicaid to stay healthy and financially secure.

More than 150 Minnesota organizations — including health care providers, insurers, nonprofits, service organizations, patient advocacy groups, and worker representatives — are deeply concerned about these harmful cuts to health care.

We’ve created a toolkit and an action alert for interested nonprofits and health care advocates who want to join us in protecting Medicaid.

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