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This year
Would you travel to save money on surgery?
by medtours06
Uninsured Americans also are shopping around for surgery in the U.S. in record numbers. Rodney Larson, a self-employed electrician from Minnesota, used Healthbase Online Inc. to arrange a triple heart bypass at Galichia Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. He paid $13,000 flat fee for the surgery, about $90,000 dollars less than the rate for uninsured patients in Minnesota.
2007
Minnesota Lakeshore For Less
by redrubicon
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In the lakeshore market, if you don’t have a spare quarter million dollars for a starter cabin, then you’ve been relegated to renting one. But Mark Weber, a partner at Lakeshore Ventures, has a vision. It includes fun loving kids in water wings and practical thinking couples walking hand-in-hand along their shoreline at sunset.
Weber purchased Cokato Lake RV Resort in Cokato, Minnesota two years ago and has been testing a new business model that reaches the large, untapped market of budget conscious lakeshore buyers. By offering affordable cooperative ownership of lakeside parcels, his concept seems to be paying off.
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2006
03.28.06 MN: Senate division gives OK To 'Wal-Mart bill'
by aflciopolitical
A bill that would require large Minnesota employers to supply health insurance for workers or pay the state a share of the cost got closer to a Senate floor vote on Tuesday. The Senate Health and Human Services Division approved the bill 5 to 2. It has be
03.19.06 MN: Senate panel approves ‘Wal-Mart’ health care bill
by aflciopolitical
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A bill that would require the state’s largest employers to pay health care insurance costs for their workers — commonly known as "the Wal-Mart bill" — passed a Senate committee on Monday, amid concerns from groups, such as the
NCAA Division I Championships Session 2 Recap
by wrestling
OKLAHOMA CITY — Day One of the 2006 NCAA Division I Championships is now in the books, and for the two top teams, Oklahoma State and Minnesota, it was a Tale of Two Teams. For the Cowboys, it was the best of times, with Oklahoma State wrestlers writing a great day for themselves, sending Cowboy fans into delirium repeatedly. By contrast, it may not have been the worst of times for Minnesota ? but, for the Golden Gophers, there were some bad breaks along the way.
Minnesota: H.F. No. 2786, as introduced - 84th Legislative Session (2005-2006)
by aflciopolitical
Posted on Feb 16, 2006 1.1 A bill for an act 1.2 relating to health; requiring large employers to report information on employee 1.3 health insurance costs; requiring certain large employers to pay ass
03.05.2006 MN: I support fair share (Letters to the Editor)
by aflciopolitical
I support the fair share health-care legislation, which would require large employers to either directly contribute toward health-care coverage for their low-wage employees or contribute to the state to cover the cost of employees on MNCare.
