General Discussion

As an aging nurse with a very rare spine injury and complications, I have been through every medical system in the Minneapolis area. Of course, I didn’t have a diagnosis, so I started with Mayo. The only system providing worse care to Medicaid (MA)/Medicare patients in Minnesota is Mayo. Way back in the dark ages of 2017-ish, Mayo announced it was prioritizing the needs of private pay patients and instituted a stop light system to simplify care delivery. Private pay-Greenlight! Everything available right now! Employer based insurance-Yellow light! Care provided as openings available after insurance approval. Public pay insurance-Interns/Residents/Practicum staff available to provide care when bodies were needed to maintain educational certification. And of course, every attorney in the State is bought off so there is no recourse for malpractice. Mayo is the whale in the goldfish bowl in Minnesota; within a few years, every system in the State followed suit.

Fairview is an insurance company, as I understand it, and MHealth is run by the University of Minnesota. The care is simply 3rd world. Health Partners is the same. Go with Health Partners public insurance and try to get serious health care from a Health Partners affiliated Clinic, you better start putting burial money away.

The only work around I have found is insurance from one company and heath care from Allina. But now that Allina has been aquired by Sutter Health, I expect their quality of care will decline in the next few years.

Its all a very profitable race to the bottom. Enshittification on steroids! I often think of the old Irish blessing my grandfather taught us, “May you live as long as you want to; may you want to as long as you live.”