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" Bluetrass BlueShield . ....... .... of Minnesota . . .._--..;..._- FACT SHEET A Healthier Minnesota - A Blue Cross Investment to make Minnesota a healthier place to live and work Give Minnesota children a better chance to grow up healthy. Reduce premiums for many Minnesota businesses that buy health insurance products. Provide cost relief. Save lives - and money - by making people healthier. .. Asa taxable nonprofit - not a for-profit company or a charitable organization - Blue Cross' intent has always been to use our landmark 1998 settlement with the tobacco industry to benefit all Minnesotans. It's an extraordinary opportunity to save lives and save money by investing in health. Our Healthier Minnesota plan for our tobacco proceeds benefits everyone - our members, our neighbors, small businesses, large businesses, the uninsured and the under-insured. When everyone is healthier, we all reap the rewards. Payments to eligible fully insured Blue Cross groups under a legal settlement and to individual members are also a component. The plan also provides immediate relief by reducing premiums for many Minnesota businesses, and invests in tomorrow, by preserving the community clinic safety net, and targeting the greatest health challenges in our state: heart disease, cancer and tobacco use. At a Glance: A Healthier Minnesota Investment What it Means Provide needed new funds for community clinics. To the Healthier Minnesota Community Clinics Investment: $30 million Fund to help community clinics serve the uninsured and under-insured in our state, and preserve the community clinic safety net Reduce the deficit facing the Minnesota To offset MCHA' s deficit and make health care Comprehensive Health Association (MCHA) more affordable, especially for small businesses, by Investment: $70 million reducing the burden on the businesses taxed to fund MCHA Distribute a portion of the. pro,ceeds directly to Blue Immediate relief for eligible :ftJ.lly insured Blue Cross eligible fully insured individual members. Cross individual and Medicare Supplement Investment: $30 million members who had coverage on June 15,2001 Distribute a portion of the proceeds directly to Blue Payments distributed to 10,000 Blue Cross groups Cross eligible fully insured groups pursuant to a fully insured between 1978 and June 15, 2001.The class action settlement. Investment: $41 million, original plan the Commerce Department approved less plaintiffs' attorneys fees and costs called for $30 million. Another $11 million has now been added under the legal settlement. Save lives and save money by investing in health Prevention Minnesota, our 10-year initiative, will improvement and heart disease and cancer target the leading preventable causes of death and prevention programs for all Minnesotans. disability: tobacco use, physical inactivity, and Investment: $241 million unhealthy eating.