Pat Garofalo is the director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project and the author of “The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs.” (He has no relation to Farmington, Minnesota, Rep. Pat Garofalo.)
Editor’s note: The author is not the same person as Minnesota Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington. Late last month, the Minnesota-based hospital system Fairview Health Services announced that it was pulling the plug on a proposed merger with South Dakota-based Sanford Health. This marked the second time these two health care systems had failed to consummate […]
