Bernie Sanders Rips Minnesota's Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, MN — The Mayo Clinic, a beloved Minnesota fixture recently documented by popular filmmaker Ken Burns, is the latest target of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

In a tweet linking to a MinnPost opinion piece criticizing the Mayo's "disinvestment" in rural America, the self-described democratic socialist criticized the hospital system and said his "Medicare for All" plan will "end the corporate greed in health care."

Last week, the Mayo announced it would close clinics in Springfield and Lamberton, Minnesota, as rural populations wane.

In the MinnPost article, Anna Thompson Hajdik states that "Mayo and other health care systems claim that their decisions to close clinics and hospitals are driven by a lack of demand for these services, pure and simple. But in making these purely economic decisions, they contribute mightily to the hollowing out of rural America and essentially undermine their core institutional mission."

Read the entire article here.