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I lost my hospital too in that Steward meltdown, and it's a major sore spot for me, but don't you think you might be projecting prior spite for MA onto this situation? It's not the Commonwealth's job to bail out crooked healthcare companies, particularly to save hospitals that cost way more to run than they could hope to make. MA population may be aging (more hospitalizations), but lacking immigration we'll begin shrinking very soon, and then these hospitals will be even less financially workable.
I like to think of it this way: I'll assume that a lot of us here play games like Sim City, Cities Skylines, etc. When residents are sick, do you zone commercial and hope that a company builds a hospital or do you plop and maintain one as a government cost?
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“Expensive to run” in hospital speak just means that it mostly served poor people. Figuring out a solution is the job of the leadership of this state. The fact that it’s difficult, complicated, challenging, or expensive doesn’t change the fact, it only highlights the unacceptability of the failure.
See above. The richness of this state and its coffers makes this all the more egregious. To say that Massachusetts of all places can’t afford to fix this and do right by patients is egregious beyond belief. It would at least be expected if this were Mississippi.
That's surprising
Small private colleges are closing quite a bit. The dropping enrollment and rising costs are taking their toll.
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