In our latest Capitol Report op-ed, Growth & Justice president Dane Smith and health care policy fellow Amy Lange urge Minnesota to chart its own path toward a better health care system, one that lowers costs and provides better care for all, including middle- and low-income families.

Also, check out Amy's Star Tribune commentary underlining the urgent need for a reimagined health care system, starting at the state level.

How the health care mess has mobilized the 99 percent
By Amy Lange, Health Policy Fellow and Dane Smith, President of Growth & Justice

Minnesota must forge ahead with its own system for universal coverage; a single payer might make sense.

As pundits try to explain the “99 percent” movement, they typically identify driving factors such as student debt, high levels of unemployment, anger at Wall Street greed, and the glaring and growing economic inequality in the United States.

But health care — namely the lack of it and the excessive cost of it — is one of the most important and overlooked motivating forces.