Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

As a breast cancer survivor, health insurance is a top concern for Mankato’s Lisa Newton. She must have good coverage in case her cancer returns, and after her divorce a few years ago Newton set out ...

As the outreach program manager at Portico Healthnet, a nonprofit that helps people obtain health care coverage, Rebecca Lozano's job is to match as many people with insurance plans as she can. Lozano ...

ST. PAUL - It’s crunch time at MNsure. If people don’t get health insurance by March 31, they could face penalties under the federal Affordable Care Act. Plus, people who don’t meet the coverage ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesotans searching for 2023 health insurance coverage can enroll through MNsure by Sunday, Jan. 15. The plans cover prescription drugs, emergency services and preventive care like flu ...

MNsure sign-ups grew at a rapid pace during the recently concluded open enrollment period as a record 167,163 people used the public platform to signup for private health insurance coverage. Minnesota ...

MNsure, the state's health insurance exchange, said nearly 130,000 Minnesotans signed up for comprehensive health care coverage for 2023 during its open enrollment period. "MNsure's tenth open ...

More than 15 million people have signed up for health insurance plans offered on the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace, a 33% increase compared with the same time last year, according to ...

Minnesotans who need health insurance have one week remaining to apply for a private health plan through MNsure. The deadline to enroll is 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15, for coverage that starts ...

In November, state officials started re-running 30,000 applications because of a variety of problems, including inaccurate rulings about whether people qualified for financial assistance. In December, ...