Online daily Minnpost has a pretty decent “scorecard” outlining current Minnesota U.S. delegations’ plans for healthcare reform. Seeing as how, until today, Amy Klobuchar was our only seated U.S. senator, I’ll give Al Franken some time to formulate his ideas for reform (although I do recall personally asking him for his ideas at a local fundraiser last October — but that’s another story for another time).

Predicatably she and some of our congressional delegations fall into certain sides in the ideological debate. Briefly: (1) Klobuchar wants to reward prevention over procedure; (2) Republican Rep. John Kline likes things just as they are; (3) Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen favors reform a la Sen. John McCain; (4) Democrat Rep. Betty McCollum (surprise!) hasn’t fully embraced a single payer system whereas (5) Rep. Keith Ellison (the most liberal of our Dem representatives) is only one of the few in the House who has fully endorsed such a plan; and (6) Rep. Tim Walz (also a Dem) is the most pragmatic in the bunch — trying to find ways to optimize the healthcare delivery marketplace that make public funding enrich competition without completely ceding to a default public option.

Finally, Reps. Oberstar and Peterson (more conservative House Dems) really haven’t had time to think about alternatives to a public plan (which doesn’t mean they’re entirely against one, apparently). Let’s see, did I leave anyone out? Nope, don’t think so. | LINK

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