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A Gift That Highlights a Systemic Crisis | Rochester Minnesota News
A $35 million gift from Tom Golisano to Children’s Minnesota is a game-changer—renaming the Minneapolis campus in his honor—but it also exposes a deeper crisis: pediatric care, especially for Medicaid patients, is collapsing under financial strain. Emergency rooms overflow, mental health services are scarce, and reliance on big philanthropy isn’t sustainable as government funding shrinks. Recent laws have funneled wealth upward while gutting programs that support kids and families. The real question: shouldn’t every child’s health be a public priority—not charity? Listen in comfort:Get a…
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