CEO: Lack of healthy people roiling individual health care market

The roughly 250,000 Minnesotans who buy insurance on their own through MNSure will see their monthly premiums increase by as much as 67 percent next year.

Consumers will also see fewer insurers when open enrollment begins this November — even the behemoth Blue Cross said it could no longer afford to offer plans to the roughly 5 percent of Minnesotans who use MNsure.

State Republican lawmakers and others have called it a health care crisis.

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Richard Lett about the causes and consequences of the price increases. He's the CEO of the LeClair Group, an insurance brokerage firm that helps Minnesotans across the state choose insurance.

Click on the audio player above to hear their conversation.