Study: More Minnesotans without health insurance

The number of Minnesotans without health insurance has gone up 28 percent in the last two years.

Last year 106,000 more people were without health coverage in the state than in 2007. That's according to estimates released by The Minnesota Department of Health, and the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health

MPR's Tom Crann spoke with Stefan Gildemeister, the assistant director of the Health Economics Program at the Minnesota Department of Health.

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