ICYMI: Hospitals in ‘existential crisis’ and potential Medicaid cuts won’t help

ICYMI: Dr. Rahul Koranne, president and CEO of the Minnesota Hospital Association, spoke with Cathy Wurzer on MPR News about how recent job losses and federal instability could impact health care access for all Minnesotans. From the interview: About 1.3 million Minnesotans are on Medicaid. What happens if there are cuts? Who is that Medicaid […]

ICYMI: Minnesota’s Medicaid director says program cuts would be “impossible”

John Connolly, the Minnesota director of the Medicaid program, told WCCO that Medicaid cuts would lead to “impossible” decisions: “The state would not have the capacity to absorb such a budget cut. It would likely force us to consider some impossible choices, in terms of eligibility – in other words, who is eligible and can […]