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Oct 14, 2026
Ed DonoghueHOST
Doctors say Leo is eating and has been walking and doing respiratory exercises, and his postoperative tests are normal following surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung.
Ed DonoghueHOST
Dr. Ben Jang is a surgeon at Allina Health in Minneapolis.
Ben JangSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What happens when we remove a lobe of the lung is the other parts of the lung, the other lobes, actually take up some of the work that the other lobes do.
Ben JangSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's more blood flow to those lobes, and over time, over the course of a few months, um, people do adjust.
Alan CondonGUEST
Um, essentially Sanford now a 60-hospital system in multiple states.
Alan CondonGUEST
Sutter Health in California, of course, still pursuing this proposed merger acquisition with, uh, Minneapolis-based Allina Health.
Alan CondonGUEST
Um, that is a huge, huge deal that many, many have their eyes on.
Alan CondonGUEST
It would create a $26 billion system with 39 hospitals in multiple states.
Sean McPhersonHOST
And on today's episode, we're talking about more than breakfast, but we are gonna sneak in a little bit of breakfast talk.
Sean McPhersonHOST
Mainly, we're gonna talk about a temporary strike for hospice nurses in the Allina system, and we'll connect with a bevy of our contributors to find out what political takes they have that even their closest friends might find surprising.
Sean McPhersonHOST
But like I said, breakfast is in the air.
Sean McPhersonHOST
In fact, Roseanne Pereira, fantastic newsletter writer for us here at CityCast, just covered some savory breakfast options in the Twin Cities.
Sean McPhersonHOST
Hospital mergers have been a big part of this year in Minnesota.
Sean McPhersonHOST
In fact, there's been three hospital mergers that have shaken up the healthcare industry just this year.
Sean McPhersonHOST
And for Allina Health staff, there's been a lot of concern.
Sean McPhersonHOST
There's been hospice nurses going on strike, as well as doctors who went on strike for several days in September.
Paul K.D.GUEST
Uh, I think last year, the Star Tribune had one of the better headlines on this, which was, "Nonprofit Mayo Clinic Makes Biggest Profit Ever." Um, I'll leave it to the budget wizards to explain how that works.
Paul K.D.GUEST
But, um, the one here that has been huge, and has been a, also a landmark for labor unrest, has been, um, Allina Health, um, which has been in, in the news, uh, in many...
Paul K.D.GUEST
For the last few years and for a lot of negative things.
Paul K.D.GUEST
I think the biggest one that got really nationwide coverage was that, uh, The New York Times unearthed that they, um, had a longstanding practice of, uh, denying, um, people who are late on bills care.
Paul K.D.GUEST
And in fact, many of these people were eligible for, um, uh, their, um, uh, charitable services that in order to keep a nonprofit status, uh, healthcare institutions have to offer a certain amount of, of their services for free.
Paul K.D.GUEST
And many of these people who had medical debts were eligible for it.
Paul K.D.GUEST
Instead of telling them that and, or working with them or, you know, making sure to give them healthcare like, you know, the kind of Hippocratic Oath says you should, uh, administrators of, of Allina Health were instructing, um, the, the system and instructing, like, the, um, uh, secretaries and the registrars, uh, giving peop- appointment, making people appointments, uh, instructing people to, uh, cut 'em off and tell them that, you know, "Oh, no more appointments for you." Uh, so that was just horrible.
Paul K.D.GUEST
And, um, news of that and then other kind of interference into decision-making and interference into the care and kind of the corporatization of healthcare led, uh, these, uh, doctors at two hospitals in kind of working class northern suburbs of Minneso- of, uh, Minneapolis as, um, to unionize in, back in 2023.
Chris BevoloGUEST
We're both in the Twin Cities.
Chris BevoloGUEST
And in two thousand and five, Fitch shows that the, the market share leader is Allina Health, which is a large system in Minnesota, with I don't know how much it was back then.
Chris BevoloGUEST
It was, like, thirty percent, let's just say.
Chris BevoloGUEST
And in twenty twenty-five, it's, like, thirty-one percent, and every year in between.
Johnny ConnorHOST
Here's WCCO's Esme Murphy.
Esme MurphyCORRESPONDENT
I'm doing a story today about the proposed merger between Allina Health and Sutter Health, which is based in California.
Esme MurphyCORRESPONDENT
Uh, there were a bunch of DFL lawmakers, including the minority leader, Zack Stevenson, expressing extreme concern that this proposed merger would lead to higher prices for Minnesotans.
Esme MurphyCORRESPONDENT
On top of that, they're also concerned about two other mergers, uh, Sanford, North Memorial, and also, uh, Essentia and Health Partners.
Keith EllisonGUEST
As you know, uh, h- uh, Health Partners, uh, and Essentia just announced that they were exploring something.
Keith EllisonGUEST
We're got a long way to go before that one gets concluded, and Sutter, an out of, out of town outfit, wants to align with Allina.
Keith EllisonGUEST
That one is still in the process of being worked through.
Keith EllisonGUEST
We have to take these things...
Brad BennettHOST
It's the third proposed joining of healthcare systems in the state this year.
Brad BennettHOST
Minneapolis-based Allina Health and Sutter Health based in California have proposed joining together.
Brad BennettHOST
That proposal is still under review by the State Attorney General's office.
Brad BennettHOST
Earlier this month, Robbinsdale-based North Memorial Health merged with Sanford Health, huge, uh, health company out of South Dakota.
Kenny OlsonPANELIST
But have you ever been to the doctor? You know, you get about two minutes with him, and he's gone
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
[laughs] The inpatient doctors at Mercy Hospital, who went on strike for four days earlier this month, have reached a tentative agreement with Allina Health.
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
Their tentative deal preserves some autonomy of their medical practices and protects them if they fight with Allina leadership over their patients' needs.
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
Dr. John Wuest, a Mercy obstetrician who was part of the bargaining team of more than 130 unionized doctors, said, "Allina acknowledged our physicians have a legitimate responsibility for patient advocacy that requires physician autonomy." Uh, the doctors did not gain any sick pay benefits.
Noam ScheiberGUEST
No, I, I'll, I'll, I'll wrap it up.
Noam ScheiberGUEST
But I, you know, I, I covered a, um, a, an organizing campaign at a big healthcare system in Minnesota called, um, Allina.
Noam ScheiberGUEST
And, um, the doctors, you know, it was about five hundred primary care doctors who organized in the fall of 2023.
Noam ScheiberGUEST
Um, this was at the time the largest private sector union of doctors in the country ever, I believe, or at least since, you know, the '30s or something like that.