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MinnesotaCare
MinnesotaCare is a public health insurance program in the United States, U.S. state of Minnesota for low-income individuals and families who lack employee-sponsored health insurance and who do not qualify for Medical Assistance (Minnesota’s Medicaid program). It is administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Enrollees pay a monthly fee based on income and family size, among other factors. As of 2024, roughly 100,000 Minnesotans are enrolled in MinnesotaCare. History MinnesotaCare was established in 1992 by Republican Governor Arne Carlson with bipartisan legislative support. The founding legislation pledged that the state would help pay for medical care for residents up to 200% of the Poverty in the United States, federal poverty level. To finance the program, the state created the Health Care Access Fund, originally funded by a 2% tax on the gross revenues of health care providers (often called the “provider tax”) and a smaller tax on health plan premiums. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
94th Minnesota Legislature
The Ninety-fourth Minnesota Legislature is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the state of Minnesota, composed of the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives. It convened in Saint Paul on January 14, 2025, following the 2024 Minnesota House of Representatives election, November 2024 elections for the House as well as a 2024 Minnesota Senate District 45 special election, special election for Senate District 45. The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) held a one-seat majority in the Senate and a five-seat majority in the House in the 93rd Minnesota Legislature, previous legislature. The 2024 elections left the Senate composition unchanged, but it left the House evenly split between the Republicans and the DFL. Due to a pre-session vacancy, the 94th legislature began with a power struggle between the Republicans and the DFL in the House. Background House rule changes Under HF 1830, which was pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Rest
Ann H. Rest (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician and President pro tempore of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 43 which includes portions of the western suburbs of Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metro area. Early life, education, and career Rest attended Rich Township High School in Park Forest, Illinois, graduating in 1960. She went to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she received her B.A. degree in Latin and Greek. Next, she attended the University of Chicago on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship earning a M.A.degree in Latin and Greek. She later received an M.A. in teaching from Harvard University, a master's in business taxation from the University of Minnesota, and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government through a Bush Fellowship. She is a retired Certified Public Accountant. Minnesota Legislature Rest was first e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Dayton
Mark Brandt Dayton (born January 26, 1947) is an American politician who served as the List of governors of Minnesota, 40th governor of Minnesota from 2011 to 2019. He served as a United States Senate, United States Senator representing Minnesota from 2001 to 2007 and as Minnesota State Auditor from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), which affiliates with the national Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. Dayton is the great-grandson of businessman George Dayton, the founder of Dayton's, a department store that later became the Target Corporation. He embarked on a career in teaching and social work in New York City and Boston after graduating from Yale University in 1969. During the 1970s, he served as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Walter Mondale and Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich. In 1978, Dayton was appointed the Minnesota Economic Development Commissioner and married Alida Rockefeller Messinger, a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Schultz
Jennifer Schultz is an American politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented District 7A in northeastern Minnesota. She unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Congress in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District in 2022, and again 2024. Early life and education Schultz was raised in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. She attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a Ph.D. in health services research, policy, and administration, with a concentration in health economics. Personal life Schultz is married with two children and resides in Duluth, Minnesota. She is a professor of health care economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Congressional campaign On March 28, 2022, Schultz announced that she was running for Congress in Minnesota's 8th congressional district. She won the August 9 DFL primary with 86.15% of the vote, and lost the November 8 general election A general e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Lourey
Tony Lourey (born August 15, 1967) is an American politician. He is a former Minnesota commissioner of human services and former Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) member of the Minnesota Senate, representing District 11. Early life, education, and career Lourey was born in Pine County, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Hamline University School of Law, and William Mitchell College of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 2011. Before his election to the Senate, he was a township supervisor of Kerrick Township for eight years. Political career Lourey was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2006 to represent District 8, succeeding his mother, Becky Lourey. He was reelected in 2010. After redistricting, he was elected to represent District 11—which included Carlton and Pine counties and parts of Kanabec and St. Louis counties in the northeast—in 2012 and reelected in 2016. He resigned on January 3, 2019, after Governor Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HealthPartners
HealthPartners is an integrated, nonprofit health care provider and health insurance company located in Bloomington, Minnesota offering care, coverage, research and education to its members, patients and the community. History HealthPartners was founded in 1957 as Group Health, a consumer-governed nonprofit health plan with a board of directors made up of its own members and patients. In 1992, Group Health merged with MedCenters Health Plan, and together they formed HealthPartners. On January 1, 2013, HealthPartners merged with Park Nicollet Health Services of St. Louis Park to become the new HealthPartners. Leadership Mary Brainerd started with HealthPartners in 1992 and was appointed president & chief executive officer beginning in 2002. On March 6, 2017, Brainerd announced her retirement effective June 1. Andrea Walsh, former HealthPartners Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, took over the role of President and CEO on June 1, 2017. Phil Donaldson is ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Walz
Timothy James Walz (; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019. Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska. After high school, he joined the Army National Guard and worked in a factory. He later graduated from Chadron State College in Nebraska and then moved to Minnesota in 1996. Before running for Congress, he was a high school social studies teacher and American football, football coach. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for in 2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota#District 1, 2006, defeating six-term Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht. Walz was reelected to the House five times and was the ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Murphy (Minnesota Politician)
Erin Murphy (born March 13, 1960) is an American politician serving as Majority Leader of the Minnesota Senate since 2024. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 64, which includes the Highland Park, Macalester-Groveland, Merriam Park, Summit Hill, and St. Anthony Park, neighborhoods of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul in Ramsey County, Minnesota, Ramsey County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. She is a former Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives, executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association, and is also a registered nurse. Education Murphy graduated from high school in Janesville, Wisconsin, Janesville, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, receiving her Bachelor of Science, B.S. in nursing in 1984. She earned her Master of Arts, M.A. in Leadership studies, organizational leadership in health care at the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Kupec
Robert J. Kupec ( ; born November 27, 1968) is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), he represents Senate District 4, which includes most of Clay and Becker counties. Prior to seeking elected office, he was for a decade the chief meteorologist at KVRR and previously at WDAY-TV. Early life, education, and career Kupec was born in eastern Connecticut. Both of his parents were active union organizers. He attended college at the State University of New York-Albany, studying Atmospheric Science, and earned a degree in 1992. He moved to Moorhead, Minnesota in 2000, and began work as a meteorologist, first for WDAY-TV and then served as chief meteorologist for KVRR. Political career Prior to moving to Minnesota, Kupec ran as a Green party candidate for the Albany County Legislature in 1999. In 2022, incumbent DFL state senator Kent Eken decided not to seek reelection. Kupec ran, and was unopposed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Hauschild
Grant Hauschild ( ) is an American politician representing District 3 in the Minnesota Senate since 2023. Education Hauschild earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and public administration from the University of North Dakota and a Master of Science in public policy analysis from George Washington University. Personal life Hauschild and his wife, Grace, have two children. Hauschild is a hunter. Career Hauschild worked for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. From 2011 to 2014, he served in the United States Department of Agriculture as an economic development specialist and confidential assistant. In 2014 and 2015, he served in the office of U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp. Hauschild was an unsuccessful candidate for the North Dakota House in 2016. He returned to the University of North Dakota in 2015, working as associate director of development until 2017 and director of development from 2017 to 2018. Hauschild moved to Minnesota in 2019 to work for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is Forest cover by state and territory in the United States, forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main Politics of Minnesota, political, Economy of Minnesota, economic, and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
