MNsure will serve 1 out of every 5 Minnesotans – about 20% of the state. That’s more than 1.2 million Minnesotans.

Enrollment begins October 2013. Plan coverage starts January 1, 2014.

In 2011, nearly 490,000 Minnesotans, or 9.1 percent of the population, lacked health insurance.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Health Coverage in Minnesota, Early Results from the 2011 Minnesota Health Access Survey, March 2012

Relative to the uninsured overall, the long-term uninsured accounted for an estimated two-thirds (70.1 percent) in 2011.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Health Coverage in Minnesota, Early Results from the 2011 Minnesota Health Access Survey, March 2012

Large disparities in health coverage by race and ethnicity also persisted into 2011. The rates for black, American Indian and Hispanic/Latino Minnesotans were between 1.5 and nearly three times higher than the rates for the state overall.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Health Coverage in Minnesota, Early Results from the 2011 Minnesota Health Access Survey, March 2012

Statistics from 2009/2010 show that only 38.5% of small employers with 1-49 employees offered health insurance.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota’s Small Group Market General Overview, March 2012 

Small businesses pay up to 18 percent more per worker than large firms for the same health insurance policy.
Source: The White House, Report on Small Business and Health Reform, July 2009 

Nearly two-thirds of personal bankruptcies in America are linked to illness and medical bills. 
Source: American Journal of Medicine, Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study, June 2009

Uninsured adult Americans are more than twice as likely to delay or forgo needed care compared to adults with health insurance. 
Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, The Uninsured and the Difference Health Insurance Makes, September 2010

Uninsured adult Americans are three times more likely to not be able to pay for basic necessities because of their medical bills compared to adults with insurance. 
Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, The Uninsured and the Difference Health Insurance Makes, September 2010

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