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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps2/13/2014 12:07:40 PM
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Minnesota shows Wisconsin how to lower health care costs.

The lowest monthly silver premium in the country is offered in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, where a 40-year-old will pay $154 a month for a PreferredOne plan. Just across the Wisconsin border, that same level plan -- but with a different insurer and other doctors and hospitals -- costs nearly three times as much.

Insurers were able to negotiate low rates with hospitals and doctors in the Twin Cities because they could choose among four major health care systems. Both Fairview Health Services, which runs the University of Minnesota Medical Center and is included in the lowest plan’s network, and Allina Health, the largest system in the Twin Cities and operator of Abbott Northwestern Hospital, have been in the vanguard of experimenting with more efficient ways to care for patients, such as affordable care organizations and putting doctors on salary, said Stephen Parente, a health economist at the University of Minnesota.

“Minnesota has had years if not decades of experience with managed care,” he said.

Most counties in central and northern Minnesota also have premiums that are among the lowest in the nation. Michael Rothman, commissioner of Minnesota’s Department of Commerce, which regulates insurers, said the state moved early to enact cost-control measures such as restricting how much insurers can spend on things other than medical care and requiring annual insurance rates to go through state review.

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