Minnesota Center For Health Care Affordability

In the December 8, 2025 issue of The Land – Dr. Mark Brakke commented on the Minnesota Center for Health Care Affordability. He makes the point that the Center will have an impact on Minnesota health care legislation, and we should interact with the Center to help move Minnesota to the right decisions on fixing our health […]
After Eight years, Minnesota Has a New U.S. Senate Co-sponsor of Medicare for All

On December 2, 2025, Senator Tina Smith made history by becoming only the second Minnesota senator – and just the third current member of our congressional delegation – to support this critical legislation.
The Ultimate Gift We Owe Ourselves: End Private Health Insurance

This issue of Health Justice Monitor addresses the futility of continuing to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize an industry that will never actually meet the health care needs of the people they are supposed to serve.
A Bronze Affordable Care Act Plan Plus a Health Savings Account Is Not the Answer

During the discussions over the ACA premium tax credit subsidies that were allowed to expire this month, some in Congress proposed a Bronze ACA Marketplace Plan plus a Health Savings Account (HSA) as the solution to financing health care in our country. As former health insurance company executive, Wendell Potter, and co-author, Joey Rettino, explained […]
Bernie Sanders STUNS Trump with BAD NEWS

Bernie Sanders STUNS Trump with BAD NEWS On December 18, 2025 – Brian Tyler Cohen hosted U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) who did an excellent job commenting incisively on the failure to continue the 2025 Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. He also discussed the fundamental need for Medicare For All.
Project 2025’s Plan to Kill Medicare Via Default Enrollments in For-Profit Alternative

“If implemented, Project 2025 would lead to a multibillion-dollar annual giveaway to corporations at the expense of Medicare enrollees and taxpayers,” warns a new Center for American Progress report.
Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him. This Is How They Did It. (ProPublica)
Single Payer Plans – Don’t let ideology stand in the way of more efficient health care. (Minnesota Medicine Magazine)
Record number of Duluth firefighters retire in face of health insurance uncertainty (Star Tribune)
Doctor fired from ER warns about effect of for-profit firms on U.S. health care (ABC News)