2017 End of Session Wrap-up!

Date: Tuesday, June 6
Time: 6:30 p.m - 8:00 p.m.
*doors open at 6pm
Location: Best Western Capitol Ridge - St. Paul
Cost: $15
Food: Light hors d’ouvres
Minnesota Engagement2017 End of Session Wrap-up!![]()
Date: Tuesday, June 6 CCHF Testimony on SF 800 (Benson) - HHS Omnibus![]()
Senate File 800 (Benson) – HHS Omnibus
CCHF Testimony on HF945 (Dean) - HHS Omnibus![]()
House File 945 (Dean) – HHS Omnibus
CCHF Testimony in MN Senate Finance for SF 720 - Reinsurance![]()
Senate File 720 – Dahms – Reinsurance
CCHF Urges Minnesota Lawmakers to Oppose ‘Reinsurance’ Legislation![]() ST. PAUL, Minn.—On Monday, Minnesota House lawmakers are scheduled to vote on a bill that will dramatically change the individual market in Minnesota.
CCHF "Reinsurance" Diagram and Testimony in MN House![]()
House File 5 – Davids – Reinsurance
Minnesota Working to Address Health Care Crisis, But Missed Opportunity to Bring Affordable Options Back to Minnesotans![]() ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Minnesota House Republicans has been working to address the state’s health insurance crisis, but deleted a component from a key bill last night that would have returned health care options to Minnesotans.
Patients Could Lose Consent and Privacy Rights Over Their Medical Records![]() Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org), a national patient-centered health freedom organization based in St. Paul, Minn., believes that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is gathering information from insurers, hospitals and others to convince state legislators to repeal Minnesota’s strongest-in-the-nation medical privacy law. Privacy Alert!![]() Take Action! MDH has issued a request for information (RFI) to gather information from the public to make their case against the strongest-in-the-nation Minnesota medical privacy law. The questions in the RFI are clearly slanted toward generating data to pressure legislators into repealing the MHRA and removing Minnesota’s consent requirements. Please fill out your responses to stop repeal of MN's medical privacy law (DEADLINE: Monday, October 17, 2016 @ 7pm) Minnesota Bill Would End Coercive Consent Forms and Further Protect Patient Privacy![]() ST. PAUL, Minn.—Minnesota lawmakers yesterday advanced a bill that would ensure greater patient privacy protection by requiring patients to initial each item to which they are consenting on their health records at the doctor’s office, hospital or clinic—thus allowing patients to pick and choose exactly what information they would like to be shared between medical professionals and for what purposes, says Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org), which testified yesterday in support of the bill. |