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Jin Lee Palen

Jin Lee Palen

Jin Lee Palen is executive director of the Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Providers.

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mental health

Counterpoint: Private providers are needed for treatment of mental health, substance use

By: and - July 16, 2024

Editor’s note: This is a response to a recent Reformer Tax and Spend commentary that argued privatization of government services has enabled fraud and waste. Read it here.  The premise of a recent Reformer commentary decrying the privatization of government services was that due to some bad characters, we need to have “government agencies complete […]