Gov. Mark Dayton has made 11 picks to a health care task force that will study MNsure and MinnesotaCare and make recommendations for their future direction.
A technology problem with the state's health insurance exchange has generated a backlog of roughly 180,000 health insurance renewals. Reports say that MNsure's automated renewal system began having problems in May.
The head of Minnesota's state-run health insurance exchange says an eagerly awaited Supreme Court ruling on subsidies will have no impact in the state.
Minnesota's health insurance exchange is looking for a permanent leader. MNsure opened applications this week for its executive director position. The opening was prompted by CEO Scott Leitz's departure in May.
The debate over MNsure's future is taking an emotional turn. A House panel voted Monday to abandon MNsure and move to the federal exchange by 2017. That decision came after one man blamed the exchange for his wife's death from cancer earlier this year.