On Monday, the administration of MN Governor Mark Dayton announced a $41 million contract to "design and develop" a state health insurance exchange (HIX) - President Obama's federal takeover center, his superstructure for the nationalization of health care.
National Registration System, not a "Marketplace": This is not a one-stop-shop, it's a center to register (and pay) for government-approved health insurance. Using the exchange, every person, or their employer, must register each individual's insurance status with the federal government for approval or exaction of the Obamacare tax-penalty.
The registration and IRS enforcement occurs as you purchase government-approved health insurance online through the exchange, when your employer sends your name and tax ID number to the exchange for registration, or when your name appears in the exchange with no corresponding insurance purchase. Comments on the Star Tribune article amuse and enlighten, but this is why a "website" costs $41 million to construct.
Peter Frank, the head of the Minnesota exchange (info tech) contract, told me they are looking for data sources to "pre-populate" the exchange insurance registry with the names of Minnesotans. They are considering all possible databases, including the Minnesota Dept. of Revenue tax rolls.
Dayton's Achilles Heel: On July 10, Dayton's letter to the federal government noted the "State leaders, who choose to obstruct the implementation of this new law" as "part of the problem." And as evidence of Dayton's so-called problem, the $41M contract includes the following statement:
"The State may immediately terminate this Contract if it does not obtain funding from the Minnesota Legislature, or other funding source; or if funding cannot be continued at a level sufficient to allow for the payment of the Services covered here..."
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