Led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a phalanx of interests charged Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth and its Ingenix division with denying millions of dollars in claims for millions of Americans when they use doctors outside of their insurer’s network.
Cuomo said Wednesday that he plans to sue UnitedHealth, launch an industrywide investigation into billing procedures and […]
Health care remains a top voter concern. Here’s some help on candidates’ stated positions:
Q Will all Americans be covered by health insurance?
Clinton: Yes. Huckabee, McCain, Obama: No.
Clinton would mandate that all individuals have health insurance. She has not specified how this would be enforced. Obama proposes a stepped approach starting with a mandate to cover […]
ST. CLOUD - Gov. Tim Pawlenty gave Minnesota a sloppy Valentine on Wednesday, telling a hand-picked audience at the St. Cloud Civic Center that we have an unstoppable forward momentum toward greatness.
Greatness was the message of his State of the State Address — delivered to a small audience of invited big shots (and 75 empty […]
For more than 20 years, Richard Espeseth deftly operated huge steelmaking machines. But he never mastered the computer keyboard.
Now the 60-year-old wonders if that gap in his skill set is keeping him from his next manufacturing job. Downsized out of a job at Northstar Steel in 2002 and again at Great Western Recycling in 2007, […]
The number of Minnesotans infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) rose again in 2007 — as it has each year since 1996.
More than 17,000 people became infected with one of the big three — chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis — an increase of 3.8 percent over 2006.
Health experts say this intractable epidemic is rooted […]
The assertion by Mark Dayton (This time, let’s be fair about the budget gap, March 24) that the richest people in Minnesota don’t pay their fair share of taxes is without merit.
It’s not his fault. Dayton cites a study that attempts to allocate all state taxes (franchise, property, excise, personal sales and corporate sales taxes) […]
We’re in the midst of a hard budget year in this state. Choices loom. These choices reflect the kind of people we want to be.
In 2004, more than 30 heads of religious bodies in this state signed A Common Foundation: Shared Principles for Work on Overcoming Poverty. Two years later, much of the language […]
With one successful start-up under his belt, John Fraser thought it would be easier to raise money for his latest venture, Mednet USA.
He was wrong.
It has been just as difficult, Fraser said. I can’t even imagine the difficulty for someone without experience, but has a great idea.
Fortunately for Fraser, a new venture capital fund […]
Over the past several months, policymakers in St. Paul have been working tirelessly under a legislative mandate to develop solutions to the unremitting annual upsurge in health-care costs — and to do it while also improving quality and access.
Their work, much of it put to paper in the recommendations of the Health Care Transformation Task […]
Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama skirmished over how to deal
with a new regime in Cuba and their approach to expanding health
insurance coverage during a debate last night in Texas.
Obama said he would meet with new Cuban leader Raul Castro
without preconditions, […]