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Minnesota Medical Association Offers Option to Break Gridlock on Provider Tax Debate in St. Paul

May 13, 2019

With only a week to finalize a state budget for the next two-year budget cycle, the Democratic-led House and the Republican-led Senate are many millions of dollars apart on their health and human services proposals, and are at loggerheads in terms of the future of the 2 percent provider tax. The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) is proposing a compromise that modernizes the tax and preserves the needed funding for public health programs such as MinnesotaCare and Medical Assistance.

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MMA Fast Facts:

  • The Minnesota Medical Association is a non-profit professional association representing 10,000+ physicians, and physicians-in-training..
  • The association was founded in 1853 as the Minnesota Medical Society. In 1869, the Minnesota Medical Society reorganized as the Minnesota State Medical Society. Then, in 1903, the Minnesota State Medical Society changed its name to the Minnesota Medical Association.
  • In 1958, the MMA created a charitable foundation that focuses primarily on supporting the next generation of physicians with student loans.
  • The MMA launched the journal Minnesota Medicine in 1918.
  • The MMA successfully pushed for Minnesota’s Clean Indoor Air Act in 1975. It’s the first such law in the nation.
  • In 2007, the MMA achieved its top public health priority with the passage of the Freedom to Breathe Act, which prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars.
  • The MMA advocated for the passage of the primary seat belt law in 2009. As a result, the state saved $45 million in avoided hospital costs and experienced 68 fewer deaths between 2009 and 2011.

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