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Rep. Cedrick Frazier (D-MN) is giving single-payer health care advocates new hope in Minnesota after California’s $400 billion single-payer bill died in early February. Although Frazier’s bill has not yet been scored by Minnesota fiscal analysts, assuming California’s $10,000 per-person cost, and $163 billion tax increase were cast proportionally across 5.7 million Minnesotans, it would create a $23.2 billion per year tax increase and more than double Minnesota’s entire budget. And that’s only part of the problem.Frazier’s proposal would replace private health insurance in Minnesota with an unelected board to “cover all necessary care, including dental, vision and hearing, mental...

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who has helped craft the Democrats' latest voting rights bill, said on Sunday that it is evil to make it hard for people to vote. During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” Klobuchar said the proposed Freedom to Vote Act will be a victory for all Americans, sharing the positive response it received from newspapers after being unveiled earlier this week. “But we've had rave reviews about the bill, positive editorials today about the substance of the bill in The New York Times, Washington Post. And for me, that was number...