ST. PAUL, Minn. –The two-year $768 million health bill passed the Minnesota House 69-64 with heavy Democrats support and heavy Republican nays. The bill runs 876 pages. The bill would fund training for a larger workforce in behavioral health, mental health and community health. A similar bill earlier passed the Senate 61-5. Now the bills go a joint House-Senate committee to resolve differences. House The chair of Health Finance and Policy Committee, Representative Tina Liebling, D-Rochester, said the House version puts Minnesota “on a path to success by making health care more affordable.” Among other things, she said, the bill would help control drug prices, so Minnesotans who have a prescription “can actually get the medicine they need to be healthy or sometimes even just to stay alive.” This includes life-saving insulin, whose price has skyrocketed as the prevalence of diabetes. has swelled.
Liebling. Co-sponsor of House health bill. A Rochester lawyer. Democrat. First elected to House in 2004.
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