Article: $47 million says we can be healthier; State grants to reduce obesity and smoking are part of an effort to improve Minnesotans' health -- and health care.(NEWS)

Article: MINNESOTA RECEIVES GRANT TO CONTINUE WORK ON HEALTH ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... quality. * Transforming Minnesota's health care delivery and payment ... initiatives to measure health care quality in Minnesota: * Governor Pawlenty ... private partnership of health care purchasers in Minnesota. Members of the Alliance ...

Article: health care: THE GREAT DEBATE; Might Obama look to ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Useful tools Still, Minnesota has developed some health care tools the nation would be wise to pick up, said Minnesota health care experts. The state ... is making his first health care trip to Minnesota," said Lois Quam ...

Article: Tax Group Diagnoses Serious Problems With Minnesota's ...
PR Newswire;  February 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Minnesota's health care taxes fail when tested ... the combined impact of Minnesota's health care taxes, which are used ... quilt that comprises Minnesota's convoluted health care taxing scheme," said ...

Article: Minnesota Businesses Commit to National Initiative for ...
U.S. Newswire;  March 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... value-driven health care." "I am proud that leading Minnesota employers are ... better value in health care. Minnesota Community Measurement ... improved value for health care providers ... commitment that Minnesota employers like ...

Article: health care: THE GREAT DEBATE; Minnesota ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... of a Senate health care bill could ... states such as Minnesota that have ... director for the Minnesota Council of ... Nonprofits. "High health care costs are ... national health care reform can ... budgets. In Minnesota, for example ...

Article: Major Minnesota Health Care Purchasers and ...
U.S. Newswire;  March 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... representatives from Minnesota businesses ... improving health care quality ... competitively priced health care. In the past few years, Minnesota purchasers ... purchasers here in Minnesota are joining ... value-driven health care." For most ...

Article: Medica Acquires Patient Choice in Minnesota, Dakotas; Move ...
PR Newswire;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and manage their health care costs. The acquisition ... Patient Choice Minnesota/Dakota program ... Honeywell. The Buyers Health Care Action Group launched ... Medica Medica is Minnesota's largest HMO ... by the Buyer's Health Care Action Group ... employer coalition in ...