MN Educators Desire Dedicated Statewide Insurance Pool

(Learfield News/St. Paul, MN) – Educators spoke at the Capitol Wednesday, demanding a structural fix to the health insurance crisis teachers face in Minnesota.

Amanda Kottke, a science teacher in the Glencoe-Silver Lake school district, says her son got sick a year ago. After two “lethargic” days and a gut feeling that he needed to be seen, she and her husband decided they couldn’t afford the 250-dollar urgent care visit, and hoped the illness would pass. She says, “After 10 long, terrifying days at Children’s Hospital, with several complications from a ruptured appendix, we were asked to pay our $10,000 deductible upfront.”

Legislation in the House and Senate offers a solution by creating a statewide insurance pool for MN educators, which some other states already have.