HEALTH CARE: How to control the costs? House speaker holds roundtable discussion in Bagley
About 10 people from the area gathered in a meeting room to voice their frustrations with complications from MNsure and other health care insurers.
One of the major concerns is trying to get
"There's only a 5,000 person allotment to get in there," said
Another participant,
"I'm fighting to find out where I can get some insurance and where I can go," she said.
Daudt, R-Crown, sympathized, recalling other Minnesotans he had talked to around the state.
"I've met a lot of people who have said they're looking at going without health insurance next year," he said. "Paying the fine--imagine that, you have to pay a fine for not buying something--and then having to take a monthly amount and put it away in the hopes that something catastrophic doesn't happen."
Daudt's tour stop Thursday in
"Families are having to make decisions whether they're going to enroll or go without insurance and pay the penalty," Senate Majority Leader
"I think we have an obligation to address what is really an emergency here, and that's all we're asking to be considered."
In a statement released just before the
Where to go?
In
"I keep hearing about open borders to be able to buy insurance freely but
"You can't buy insurance across state lines and no for-profit insurance company can do business in the state of
Daudt explained recently meeting with the hospital association who said their uncompensated care is "higher today than it was before." Many people who go to the emergency room have coverage, he said, but they cannot afford to pay their deductibles.
"They've created this system and now there's no way to put a bow on it," Daudt said. "We have to dismantle it and back out of it. The solutions that the other side are putting forward are only going deeper--Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act--the solutions that they're talking about are universal healthcare. That means rationed care like they have in
Prior to the passing of the Affordable Care Act,
"I don't know that we have the answers or that we're going to have the answers today or tomorrow but we're going to work as swiftly as possible to try and figure out what we can do to help in the meantime," Daudt concluded.
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