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Reducing and Preventing Tobacco Use in Minnesota

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Preserve funding for the Health Care Access Fund

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LETTER: Preserve the health care provider tax

April 23, 2019

Minnesota

To the Editor: Minnesota’s Health Care Access Fund (HCAF) is in jeopardy and the consequences are very real for our friends and neighbors. One in five Minnesotans relies on public health care programs that are funded by HCAF. Programs such as Medical Assistance are important in making sure Minnesotans have

Public News Service: Health Orgs Back Permanent-Provider Tax for Health-Care Access Fund

April 22, 2019

Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two huge, nonpartisan health advocacy nonprofits are coming out in favor of making Minnesota's provider tax permanent to protect the state's popular Health Care Access Fund. The American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society are joining the state's hospitals in lobbying lawmakers not to let

Letter to Lawmakers regarding HCAF

January 31, 2019

Minnesota

ACS CAN Minnesota and more than 50 diverse organizations demand plan for Health Care Access Fund

Diverse Group of More Than 50 Organizations Demand Plan for Health Care Access Fund

January 31, 2019

Minnesota

“This funding is critical to the health and wellbeing of so many vulnerable Minnesotans,” said Emily Myatt, ACS CAN Minnesota interim government relations director.