poor uneducated buck toothed hick , urban areas created the wealth and rural flyover country was already dying with hospital closures
Coronavirus Threatens Rural Hospitals
Well before the COVID-19 threat, rural health care's profitability had collapsed nationwide due to a combination of narrowing Medicare reimbursements, a larger share of patients lacking high-paying private insurance and the hollowing out of rural America. Given such pressures, more than 120 rural hospitals have been forced to close over the past decade.
Those hospitals in small-town America that have survived rely heavily on moneymakers such as elective surgeries, physical therapy and lab tests to make their razor-thin margins work. But, according to the Chicago-based Chartis Center for Rural Health, almost half of them still operate in the red.
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthie...breaking-point
One in Five Rural Hospitals Vulnerable to Closure, Study Says
https://www.dailyyonder.com/one-in-f...ys/2020/02/27/
Rural America Isn't Ready for a Pandemic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...us-too/608239/
This will be a wallop’: Rural areas brace for hard economic hit
The knock-on effects from the downturn portend a longer recovery period for some.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...economy-149218
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