Prof. Kirtley Quoted in Star Tribune on Attempts of MNsure to Keep Marketing Plan Secret

Professor Jane Kirtley denounced attempts by the new state-run insurance exchange, MNsure, to temporarily conceal its marketing plan from the public as "bogus," in a Star Tribune article on the exchange's petition to the Minnesota Department of Administration for an exemption from the state open records law. Kirtley questioned MNsure's premise that secrecy was justified to prevent the public from being misled by opponents of Obamacare, saying that "the remedy is to get accurate information out there, not hide it from the people." Although acknowledging that marketing plans are typically kept secret by private companies, "once you become a government contractor, you give up the ability to operate that way," she said.