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coverage, under obamacare. over time, more and more people have gotten insurance. tun insured rate has dropped more recently in 2015 to 4.3. where is it headed now? well, 96% of our of minnesotas are covered now, and that s great news. we ve got the highest rate of insurance in state history, and one of the highest in the country, and we want to keep that trajectory going. what we re facing right now are headwinds, because of this federal action. and we re going to be working really hard to combat that in the next few weeks. and for the next several, couple of months. so, in short form, your view is for, at least for minnesota, it ain t broke. oh, it s not you know, we ve had success here. we ve had success with state innovation, too. and it kind of has taken the reins at a state level and stabilized our market and we are enjoying success. that s not to say that the affordable care act doesn t need to be tweaked. i testified in front of senator
approach to universal insurance i mean, look, even if substantively i agree with you, which i do it s a better system substantively, doesn t it give you pause? the notion that we could move to medicare for all, having watched what they did to the affordable care act doesn t that seem like you re talking from mars? chris no, i m not talking from mars. let me give you an example. if a couple of years ago, someone had gone on your show, i had gone on your show and said chris, you know, i think we ve got to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour over a period of a few years, you would have said that s crazy. that s ambitious. a wall street journal poll came out a few days ago, the majority of the american people think we should raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. if i said to you that instead of doing what the republicans want to cut social security we should expand social security benefits by lifting the cap, you would have said wow, that s really ambitious. i don t know
think of the arguments that they can t meet that bar. it would be a bit of a surprise at this point if the supreme court did ultimately give this temporary exemption but the supreme court has surprised us before. the health care law requires employers to require health policies that cover pret vent tif services for women, and those includes contraception and sisterlization. it makes an exemption but what about schools and hospitals and charitable organizations that employee people of all faiths? in fact, the affordable care act doesn t require employers to provide health plans period. they could ask employers to buy on the individual market the same way people are buying on the exchanges. more broadly, you re right, this is really about the employees of big organizations, much bigger than most of them than the little sisters of the poor such as notre dame which filed suit against this, catholic health services and hospitals, all employ people of various faiths
leland: obamacare coverage kicking in today. with it a possible rate shock. $100 billion of new taxes is going to be slapped on insurance companies. insurers will be on the hook for it, but critics as well as the nonpartisan congressional budget office says these costs are going to be passed on to americans i in the form of highr premiums. we already saw a lot of the higher premiums coming out from folks who had their plans canceled, what happens the administration whose polling is already really, really down in terms of the top 30 when the affordable care act doesn t seem that affordable anymore. people go throughout the