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Hospital Closings in Rural Areas

www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-brewing-trump-country-hospitals-shutter-alarming-rate-top-er-doc-warns

The problem with rural hospital finances goes back to 1986. There have been many closings over the past 3 or 4 decades. The law requires treatment of patients in emergency regardless of ability to pay. Plus, unlike hospitals in urban areas, there is a much lower concentration of insured patients.