Minn. budget chief challenges GOP's proposed health rebates

Premium relief proposed by Republican lawmakers for some Minnesota health insurance customers would cost the state $20 million just to distribute and could delay rebate checks getting delivered until 2018, the state’s top budget official said Monday.

Republicans running the Legislature start hearings Tuesday on an initial batch of health care bills in the House and Senate, anchored by $300 million in relief to customers in the state’s individual health insurance market who face spiking premiums. The proposal would offer income-based discounts, with rebate checks issued by the state.

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