ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz and leaders in Minnesota’s health care industry held a roundtable Tuesday, Sept. 23, warning that health care costs are expected to rise if enhanced tax credits aren’t extended.

Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner Grace Arnold said Tuesday there could be an average increase in health insurance rates for individual markets of over 16% — nearly 13% for small group markets — if Congress doesn’t vote to extend enhanced tax credits under the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire Jan. 1.

“Unsurprisingly, to most people who understand this, the chaos that has been created by House Bill One — the ‘big, beautiful (bill)’ or big ‘bait and switch’ — is causing immense chaos in the health care markets and health delivery,” Walz said. “You’re seeing it in some

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