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Eileen Weber

Hastings, MN
Commenter for
5 years 25 weeks

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Posted on 04/28/12 at 05:48 pm in response to Has your doctor disappeared?

Try a nurse practitioner. As a writer, you surely check out the facts, so check out the September/October 2011 issue of Nursing Economics or http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/print/PHY-269597/ to see the research on the quality care they provide. Lots of people prefer nurse practitioners because they feel they get more personal attention.

Posted on 01/27/11 at 12:22 pm in response to Star Tribune covers the Medicaid-cuts story that KSTP broke

Re comment from Medica Communications guy Larry Bussey: corporations like Medica are not "care delivery systems." They are profiteering, care-fragmentation systems. It's coming too slowly for the clinicians who truly care for people, but in the new world order for health care, true care delivery systems will simply be comprised by the nurses, doctors, therapists and social service professionals who put the patient at the center of care, not the dollar.

Posted on 01/20/11 at 03:27 am in response to Human Services head passionate about the chance to lead an agency that 'tugs at my heartstrings'

Commissioner Jesson says, "We should not experiment on the most vulnerable." Amen. In living up to that credo, she should reject any further exposure of our neediest Minnesotans to the excessive profiteering the HMOs are enjoying at their expense. The leaked HMOs plan to increase their already-generous bottom lines by cutting necessary care to our most disabled neighbors is corporate greed at its most loathsome.

With the much needed expansion of Medical Assistance to 95,000 more...

Posted on 08/28/09 at 11:00 pm in response to Is Bachmann worried about reelection?

Further suggestion that Bachmann is preparing for a tough race against a strong woman: her SS forum specifically targeted women ("What Every Woman Should Know About Social Security"). I bet we'll be seeing more of that focus on women.

Posted on 08/28/09 at 10:43 am in response to Bachmannacare in Lake Elmo: U.S. rep meets the people

As one of the two nurses holding the MLK quote banner outside, would you mind correcting your report on the banner from "Of all the forms of inequality and injustice -- health care is the most shocking and inhumane" to what was actually on the banner (and what Dr. King actually said): "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." I think your dashes indicate you knew there was something not quite right in your report.

For someone who...

Posted on 01/19/09 at 02:49 pm in response to Ambitious health care bill to cover all Minnesotans introduced in Legislature

Ambitious? You bet! Massive problems call for massive solutions. Ambitious solutions are the order of the day. Savvy legislators like Senator Berglin know we are on the cusp of a different approach to tackling intractable problems. Health care middlemen have failed in the private market, so now look with their hands out and their empty promises to taxpayers to fund their continued failure. Where is the proof to support this continued bailout? Insurance no longer protects enrollees from...