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This bill establishes the Minnesota Health Plan, a universal health care system that will cover all Minnesota residents. The key provisions include: - Requiring the plan to cover a comprehensive set of health care services, including dental, vision, mental health, and long-term care, while allowing patients to choose their providers and reducing costs by cutting administrative bureaucracy. - Creating the Minnesota Health Board to oversee the plan, including setting premiums based on ability to pay, negotiating provider payments, and ensuring adequate health care capacity. - Establishing regional health planning boards to collaborate with local agencies on public health initiatives and ensure access to services. - Forming an Office of Health Quality and Planning to assess the plan's effectiveness and make recommendations, and an Ombudsman Office for Patient Advocacy to represent consumers. - Funding the plan through a combination of income-based premiums, a business health tax, and federal funding sources. - Prohibiting the sale of private health insurance plans for services covered by the Minnesota Health Plan once it becomes operational.

Health and Social Services

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0222&ssn=0&y=2017