MNsure shoppers splitting $48.3 million in tax credits

Minnesotans buying health insurance through MNsure are benefiting from $48.3 million worth of federal tax credits this year, an increase of more than 50 percent compared with subsidies received for 2014.

On average, about 55 percent of people who enrolled in health plans through MNsure this year received federal tax credits that discount premium costs, exchange officials said Tuesday.

The share is up from 2014, when about 40 percent of people buying commercial coverage through the exchange qualified for tax credits.

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