St. Paul - Members of the MNsure Board of Directors met Wednesday to discuss enrollment numbers and to vote on the premium tax collection for 2014. MNsure officials confirmed they are unable to transfer applicant information to health plans. This is the final step of the enrollment process. Without its completion, a person is not completely enrolled in a health plan.
“More than a month after MNsure’s failed launch and after spending more than $150 million taxpayer dollars, not a single Minnesotan has been able to complete enrollment in a health plan through Democrats' new state agency,” said Rep. Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley.
The MNsure Board of Directors voted, without opposition, to charge the maximum tax on health insurance allowed by law for 2014. Those funds will be held in a special account even though the federal government is funding operations for MNsure until 2015. As a result, Minnesotans who enroll in the individual market through MNsure will see their policies taxed at a rate of 1.5 percent.
“Hardworking taxpayers can’t afford to pay even more for the implementation of ObamaCare by Governor Dayton and Democrats,” Mack said. “What’s worse? It is not only MNsure enrollees who are seeing their costs go up. It has been reported that as many as 280,000 Minnesotans will be forced to give up policies they like, with doctors of their choosing, for policies that will be more expensive and involve services they do not want.”
Mack is the Republican lead on the House Health and Human Services Policy Committee and she serves on the MNsure Legislative Oversight Committee.
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