Together For Health
“I came to TakeAction because I had been denied health care coverage for one of my children. I stay with TakeAction because I’m making a difference. I’m one of the Minnesotans creating a new health care system that excludes NO ONE.”
Erika Hiller, Leader in TakeAction's Health Care Program
“The work I do with TakeAction’s health care team allows me to work with people who share my values for a just society and an improved state of Minnesota.”
Gene Nichols, Leader in TakeAction's Health Care Program
Take Action
• Learn more about how we're fighting to make sure people are at the center of Minnesota's new Health Benefits Exchange.
• Want to know more about how the Affordable Care Act will help you and people you know? Click here to visit our resources page.
• Take five minutes to answer a few questions about your experiences with health care
Who We Are
TakeAction Minnesota’s Health Care Campaign is dedicated to achieving publicly governed and publicly accountable, comprehensive health care for all that pools our common resources for the common good. We do this by organizing communities at the grass roots level. We believe that:
- comprehensive, affordable health care for everyone in Minnesota is necessary and achievable
- our health care system should be designed to promote health, and not just treat disease
- to achieve health and justice in our state we must eliminate deep and persistent racial inequities
- our health care system should be governed by and accountable to the people of Minnesota
We help Minnesotans build the power they need to make real changes in our health care system. That’s how we removed unfair barriers to MNCare and covered 20,000 more kids. It’s how we helped save General Assistance Medical Care and won better benefits, more stable coverage, and billions in federal health care funding for 100,000 Minnesotans. It’s how we won $30 million dollars for the state of Minnesota from UCare and real reforms in how the state does business with HMOs for our public health programs.
Now center stage of the fight for health care vs. health insurance profits is in the choices Minnesota makes as we implement the Affordable Care Act. Click here to learn more about the decisions ahead, what it means for you, and what you can do about it.