This page is a collection of resources that SHADAC has for the health reform initiatives in Minnesota, including the Minnesota state health reform of 2008, the implementation issues surrounding the federal health reform legislation of 2010, and related reports and presentations.

We hope these resources are helpful. If you have suggestions, please submit them to us using our contact form. You may also call our office at 612-624-4802.

Minnesota Reform Web Sites:

• Minnesota's health reform web page
• Health Care Reform Task Force web page

Milestones:

• February 22, 2012:  Minnesota receives $26 million federal grant to help build a health insurance exchange.
• October 31, 2011:  Governor Dayton assigns the Minnesota Health Care Reform Task Force to develop an action plan for reforming how health care is delivered and paid.
• April 30, 2010, letter from Governor Pawlenty to Secretary Sebelius Regarding High-Risk Pool

Presentations by SHADAC staff regarding Minnesota Health Reform

• "Health Insurance Exchange," presented on February 7, 2012 by Lynn Blewett at the Policy Not Politics:  A Dialogue about teh Health Insurance Exchange event, Mounds View MN.
• "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA):Impacts for Minnesota," presented on April 8, 2010 by Lynn Blewett
  • Video archive
  • Presentation slides
• "Federal Health Reform:Short-Term Implications," presented on April 6, 2010 by Julie Sonier to the joint committees: Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Committee; Commerce and Labor Committee
  • Video archive
  • Presentation slides

Other presentations relating to health reform

• Health Care Reform:  How to Build on the Minnesota Model, series of forums sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs during Spring 2012.
• "Health Care Reform: What Just Happened?" audio archive of the roundtable forum on April 9, 2010 held by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

• Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) 2009 MNHA Fact Sheet
• Map of sub-state uninsurance estimates for Minnesota's non-elderly population
• Minnesota Department of Health, Health Economics Program (HEP) web site
  • MNHA survey data online tabulator
  • HEP chartbooks web page

• "Disparities and Barriers to Utilization among Minnesota Health Care Program Enrollees," report for the Minnesota Department of Human Services, published June 2009.
• "Reforming Health Care Delivery Through Payment Change And Transparency: Minnesota’s Innovations," report by the National Academy for State Heatlh Policy, published April 2010.
• "Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association (MCHA): Field Research Report," prepared for the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the New York State Health Foundation by SHADAC researchers, published May 2008.