Auntie has been on the same HMO for the last 9 years. It has been awesome. This year the TV news announced that Minnesota did not pick up their contract for 2016 but the HMO was still negotiating with the State. I wait a couple of months, call this week into the MN State Health Information Office to see if the contract had been picked up yet. The gal says "yes that is a go for next year."
That very evening there was another piece on the TV news that repeated a story from the HMO that they were not under contract by the State and were filing a suit. When asked, the State said they had not been served so they had no comment. An interview from the Somali Community said that that HMO was head and shoulders over the others in working within immigrant groups and it was going to be a hardship on them to have to change HMO's and Doctors and they hoped it could be worked out.
This was one of four that offered insurance for people who had both Medicare and MN Medicaid, usually very low income. Two of the other three had satisfaction ratings of just over 50%.
Once again having insurance does not mean you have health care.
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