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MNsure, like Obamacare, can’t deliver on promises

Minnesota’s health insurance exchange – MNsure – is in the news again this week and, again, the news is not good. An audit out Tuesday showed that MNsure failures far outweighed successess during its first year of operation. Then, on Wednesday, the agency reported it fell short of its targets for signups during the second round of enrollment this year.

What is all means is that MNsure cannot sustain itself as promised, and is not fulfilling goals of signing up people for commercial coverage and the strategic goal of signing up more than 1 million residents for health insurance coverage by 2016.

Instead, taxpayers are subsidizing MNsure every year. And the bill to residents increases every time someone signs up for public plan enrollments, such as in MinnesotaCare or Medical Assistance.

On top of all this, MNsure’s board of directors downplays every piece of bad news that rolls in. Everything is explainable or justifiable or just plain ignored by the board, which is placing a fantasy – the goals of “free”?health coverage – above the reality that is occurring and could only occur.

MNsure, born of Obamacare, is like its parent:?unsustainable. On the federal and state levels, lawmakers need to revamp existing law to end cumbersome mandates and one-size-fits-all programs. Freedom, choice and lower costs should be emphasized in market-driven solutions to health care access problems. It’s clear that Obamacare “reforms” aren’t working.

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