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MN Company Helps Families Pay For Medical Expenses
By Dennis Douda, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Healthcare costs can break any family, no matter how much they make. But a Minnesota company is offering thousands of dollars in help to middle-class...
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Detecting Alzheimer’s Early On Is Key
By Holly Wagner, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New guidelines on Alzheimer’s show the disease starts damaging the brain years before symptoms show up. The new guidelines are divided into three stages,...
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Medtronic Picks GE’s Omar Ishrak As Next CEO
NEW YORK (AP) — Medtronic Inc., the world’s largest medical device maker, has selected the head of GE Healthcare to become its chief executive as it tries to re-energize sales in the midst of an...
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Sanford, MN Medical Group Talk Merger
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Dakotas-based Sanford Health and Broadway Medical Center in Minnesota are talking about a possible merger. The Forum newspaper reports that Broadway Medical Center has clinics in...
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Local Attorney Reviews Supreme Court Health Care Debate
Moss and Barnett attorney Tom Shroyer talked with Dave Lee on the WCCO Morning News Wednesday. Shroyer commented after Day Two of the Supreme Court hearing on the health care act. Shoyer says the...
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Esme’s Blog: Running Against the Affordable Care Act
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Republicans have said they will run against the Affordable Care Act in November, so presumably Romney, if elected, and a Republican House and Senate could repeal the Act. Polls...
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Opinion: Akin’s Position On Rape And Abortion Is The GOP Platform
Where in the world is Congressman Todd Akin and what the hell is he doing? That is the family friendly version of the most asked question among high-ranking Republicans and journalists looking for a...
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Franken: Details Coming On Health Care Changes
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Al Franken says he hopes the Obama administration will soon release details of how states can provide health insurance to lower-income people as part of the...
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Minn. House Health Bill Has Care Worker Pay Hike
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota House Democrats proposed a health programs spending bill Tuesday that includes new money for mental health treatment and small salary hikes for nursing home and...
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Quick Tips On Navigating MNsure
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota is days away from launching its new health insurance program as Minnesotans will pay the lowest average monthly premiums in the country. That’s according to new numbers...
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Minn. Health Exchange Opens, A Few Hours Late
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —The staff at Portico Healthnet was all set to start signing people up for coverage through Minnesota’s new health insurance exchange on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the exchange wasn’t...
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MNsure Lands $41M Federal Government Grant
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s health insurance exchange has received a $41 million federal government grant to continue the exchange’s rollout. Officials of the exchange, known as MNsure,...
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Good Question: What Happens To Pumpkins After Halloween?
Over the past month, people trying to apply for health insurance through the federal exchange encountered major problems on the healthcare.gov website. On Tuesday, President Obama addressed the...
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‘Things Are Going In The Wrong Direction’: Obama Critic At Union Depot
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – President Barack Obama’s speech Wednesday was open to the public, but there was a limited number of tickets available. Some people chose to brave the sub-zero weather to get a...
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Audit Faults MNsure For Mistakes
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An audit of MNsure found Minnesota’s Human Services Department made multiple mistakes verifying who’s eligible for which public health program. Legislative Auditor James Nobles...
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Dayton Names Panel To Study Future Of MNsure, MinnesotaCare
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has made 11 picks to a health care task force that will study MNsure and MinnesotaCare and make recommendations for their future direction. Dayton’s selections...
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Minnesota Home Health Care Workers Push For $15 Minimum Wage
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota’s home health care workers are starting a campaign to raise their pay to $15 an hour. Thousands of unionized home care workers just got a raise on Aug. 1 to $11 an hour....
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MNsure Board Names Sole Candidate For CEO Job
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s health insurance exchange is considering a sole finalist to become its fourth leader in three years. MNsure’s board of directors on Wednesday named Mark Nyquist the...
View ArticleHow Do Small Business Owners Provide For Their Own Healthcare?
It’s a challenging time for small business owners. Faced with the possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many are rethinking their healthcare coverage and doing comparison shopping....
View ArticleHow Healthcare Changes Will Affect Your Employees
Moving into 2018, the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) future is uncertain in terms of all its provisions. However, some of them apply only to small employers, defined as those with fewer than 50...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Asks ‘Is Curing Patients A Sustainable Business Model?’
CBS Local — Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is reportedly asking some very cold questions about the healthcare industry and whether it’s a good business move to cure diseases. In an April 10...
View ArticleIn Op-Ed, Trump Trashes Dems’ Medicare For All Plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is stepping up his attack on Democrats over a health care proposal called Medicare for All, claiming it “would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits...
View ArticleIncreasing Number Of Uncircumcised Males Struggle To Find Care
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A growing number of Minnesota families are making the decision not to circumcise their baby boy. But it’s left some parents looking for proper care once they’ve made that choice....
View ArticleMeet HAL, The First Pediatric Patient Simulator In Minnesota
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (WCCO) — Minnesota nurses in training are getting a new lesson in how to better care for some of the most difficult patients to communicate with — kids. WCCO met a boy named HAL, a...
View ArticleWhat Has The Affordable Care Act Accomplished A Year Later?
The next Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”) will begin on November 15, 2014. But with almost a year under its belt, has the Affordable Care Act impact as many...
View ArticleIlhan Omar Speaks About ‘Medicare For All’At Minneapolis Town Hall
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On Thursday, the Minnesota congresswoman targeted by President Trump’s racist rant says it feels good to be home. Some of the president’s supporters may want Representative Ilhan...
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