6 Responses to “You Ask Me Why Healthcare In Minnesota Is So Expensive…”

1. bosshoss429 Says:
   April 10th, 2024 at 6:24 am

   Let’s drive all of the health insurers out of the state. Two majors are already quietly pulling out by not renewing auto and homeowners policies. Might as well run off the healthcare insurers.

2. jdm Says:
   April 10th, 2024 at 7:50 am

   boss, UnitedHealthcare, in Minnetonka, is the largest single health carrier in the United States. I found this article on their website, Advocating for transgender health care. It seems to me that they’re onboard with these changes.

   Of course, UHC et al, just pass on the costs. It’s the companies that provide healthcare for their employees that will pay (and their employees too).

   PS, the first sentence in that article, from 2021, is There are about 1.4 million transgender and non-binary adults in the United States. Back in 2020, there were 260 million adults in the US. The health insurance market in MN is being re-ordered for one half of 1% of the population.

3. bikebubba Says:
   April 10th, 2024 at 8:44 am

   I’ve heard tell it’s quite the cash cow, including costs going into six or seven figures. And jdm is right; insurers are all about requirements that allow them to charge higher premiums.

   What we need to do when, Lord willing, the GOP might get the legislature back is to install a 30 year statute of limitations for malpractice for transition related therapies. Lots of people are noting that previous hesitance about when to start therapies is disappearing, and more and more people are saying “hey, I’d like my breasts back” or “hey, I’d like my testicles back”. Stick it to the perps good and hard.

4. bosshoss429 Says:
   April 10th, 2024 at 10:02 am

   jdm,
   Thanks for the link. I guess that when you are the 600 lb gorilla in your industry, you’re looking for the next windfall, especially when they have dim witted anti American perverts handing it to you.

   Any republican that wants to run against any of these jerks, should be hammering home how much the laws they have enacted have cost them, including their portion of their employee healthcare premiums. Just like I told one of lefty friends that thinks unrestricted abortions are good, “yea. You’re funding all of these programs and you’re overall cost of living is up almost 20%, but at least women can get abortions”.

5. Bill C Says:
   April 10th, 2024 at 10:14 am

   I can confirm UHG has no plans on leaving MN at this time. They can’t sell insurance in MN because they are a for-profit company, but they won’t move the Corp HQ elsewhere for now. Especially since they dropped $3/4B on building the corporate campus in Eden Prairie less than a decade ago. Things would have to get a lot worse in MN before they would consider moving Corp HQ elsewhere.

6. bosshoss429 Says:
   April 10th, 2024 at 8:34 pm

   I guess that I can’t be hypocritical, because
   from 1991-2000, UHC was growing exponentially, seemingly by the week. I worked for a contract IT staffing company at the time. for my 9 year tenure and for three years after I left, they were my largest account and I made good money off of them.

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