More incompetence at MNsure, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars wasted

Another damning audit by the nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor found up to 49% of MNsure enrollees were ineligible for the taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits they received between January to May 2015. Furthermore, nine of eleven prior negative findings from a 2014 audit have not been resolved, leading to potentially hundreds of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars and the continued exposure of enrollees’ private information.

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“MNsure has two functions: eligibility and enrollment. We continue to hear about Minnesotans struggling to be enrolled through MNsure; now we are seeing they have failed at the second part of their mission, eligibility,” responded Sen. Michelle Benson (R-Ham Lake). “Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted, and will continue to be wasted until there is accountability for these ongoing failures. Citizens who need assistance and taxpayers who provide that assistance have both been failed by MNsure.”
“Worse, people’s private information continues to be exposed to identity theft, and hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans are potentially at risk of having their current health benefits yanked out from under them, not because of something they did, but because of the continued incompetence of MNsure.”
“It’s been almost three years since the DFL majorities in the legislature and Governor Dayton established MNsure. Every single time they had a chance to make it better, they ignored its failings and upheld the status quo. Meanwhile, the tone-deaf governor has declared today MNsure Enrollment Day. How many people have to be hurt by MNsure before our elected leaders decide to finally do something about it?”

 

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