Minnesota
Minnesota Information
Contact Information
PNHP Minnesota
Website: http://www.pnhpminnesota.org/
E-mail: pnhpminnesota@gmail.com
The Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition
Website: http://www.muhcc.org/
Media Contact
Ann Settgast
612-387-7914
settg001@umn.edu
Dr. Settgast is an internist in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Center for International Health where she provides primary care to an immigrant and refugee population. She also provides inpatient medical care at Regions Hospital. In the summer of 2007 she co-founded the Minnesota chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Elizabeth Frost
612.724.3995
libbess@gmail.com
Elizabeth Frost, MD is a family practice doctor working at the West Side Community Health Services, a community clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. After graduating from residency at the University of Minnesota, Elizabeth spent almost a year volunteering with Doctors for Global Health in Chiapas, Mexico. She currently works with a heavily Latino and mostly uninsured population in St. Paul, and is confronted daily with economic barriers to even basic care. She is currently the co-chair of Physicians for a National Health Program - Minnesota
James F. Hart
612.626.6573
hartx013@umn.edu
Dr. Hart serves as the Director of the Executive Program in Public Health Practice in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Prior to that he worked for 26 years in primary care medical practice and management both independently and with HealthPartners Inc. He was on the faculty of the Regions Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program from 2002-2005. Dr. Hart has also had a long interest in global health issues – he served on the board of Minnesota International Health Volunteers for 13 years and now serves on the board of Global Health Ministries.
Susan Hasti
651.489.802
schasti@usfamily.net
Dr. Hasti is chair of the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition (MUHCC) and a member of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). MUHCC includes Minnesota Nurses Association, Senior Federation, SEIU, MAPE, Minnesota Farmer’s Union and several other organizations. Dr. Hasti is in her eighth year as a family practitioner at Open Cities Health Center, a federally funded community health clinic. Previously she worked for several years in private practice in Bristol, Connecticut. She received her MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body, Duluth, MN
- AFSCME District Council 5, St. Paul, MN
- Minnesota AFL-CIO
- Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE)
- Southern Dakota County Labor Council, Apple Valley, MN
August 1, 2008
What About Single Payer?
By Drs. Edward P. Ehlinger and Susanne L. King | MetroDoctors
An increasing number of health care professionals and policy makers are claiming that a single-payer system is the only rational approach that can actually contain costs, achieve universal coverage, and maintain or improve quality. They argue that only a single-payer approach can address the economic pressure on businesses and the rising costs of health care for individuals and still be able to expand coverage to everyone. However, these statements are guaranteed to bring forth a series of questions about single payer. Here are responses to some of the questions that are frequently raised.
May 8, 2008
Pariah Diplomacy
by JOEL ALBERS | Southside Pride
Proposed solutions to the health care crisis have reached a crossroads, with essentially two paths that Minnesota and the U.S. can follow. One path views health care as a market commodity, in which health care is for sale. Patients are also consumers who must shop around, compare prices and quality of care, and buy insurance. That is if you can afford it. If you cannot, you are uninsured. And therein lies the crisis.
January 25, 2008
Report cards won’t improve health care
By KIP SULLlIVAN | Minneapolis StarTribune
If you liked the school report cards required by President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, you’re just going to love the doctor and hospital report cards that will almost certainly be recommended by the two state health care commissions — the Health Care Access Commission and the grandly named Minnesota Health Care Transformation Task Force — due to report in the next few weeks.
November 05, 2007
Universal health care idea sparks discussion
By Mark Sommerhauser | Winona Daily News
Mike Maher says he’s seen the future for health care in Minnesota — and it isn’t pretty. Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing. Drug costs, too. And millions of aging baby boomers will require more care in the years to come.
October 3, 2007
Ropes named to single-payer health care group
By Daily News staff
Minnesota state Sen. Sharon Erickson Ropes, DFL-Winona, has been named co-chairwoman of a group charged with finding health care solutions that would lead to coverage for all Minnesotans in the next five years.
September 24, 2007
Health Care for All Americans
Comments by Lisa Nilles, M.D.
Thank you Representatives Conyers and Ellison for your leadership on this issue. And thank all of you for coming. In case you don’t know, there are more and more doctors supporting you and this issue everyday. Only 1/3 of U.S. physicians belong to the AMA. When the AMA makes a statement, they are not representing the voices of all US physicians.
June 12, 2007
Health care is the focus
By Mark Fischenich | The Free Press
Uninsured people are often the focus of debates about America’s troubled health care system, but even those with insurance are struggling with issues of cost and access.