Better Health or Bigger Profits?

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Sarah Greenfield, TakeAction Minnesota

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In 2014 as part of federal health care reform, 300,000 Minnesotans will start getting their health insurance through a brand new structure called the "Health Benefits Exchange."  You, your friends, or your family members might be among them.
On the surface this will look like just a website.  But behind the computer screen policymakers are debating whether the Exchange will build a new foundation for better health care - or simply funnel more profits into the health insurance industry.

Right-wing opponents to reform are counting on you to believe that the fight for the Affordable Care Act is over, that there is nothing important in the law, and that you should just stay home while it is implemented their way or overturned.  In fact, you are needed now more than ever.

In the coming year, TakeAction Minnesota and our allies will be making sure that the changes we all fought so hard for are made in ways that reduce inequities in health and make quality health care affordable and accessible.

We'll be working to make sure the Exchange improves health, reforms insurance companies, and puts us -- the people who will use the Exchange -- in charge of making decisions about it.

We need you with us in this fight.  Get started by visiting our website, where we've added resources and information about what the Exchange will mean for Minnesota, or visit our blog to read firsthand accounts from the Exchange Advisory Task Force meetings. <>

And consider getting engaged right away by joining us on January 18 for a presentation on what the Exchange is and how we can make sure it works for everyone in our state. 

Thank you for standing up with us.

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