Posted on 11/09/2026 9:27:16 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Nearly 700 rural hospitals are facing financial pressures that are putting them in danger of shutting down…
Many of the states with significant numbers or percentages of rural hospitals at risk are largely rural states. But New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia are also among the states with the most rural hospitals that are deemed at grave risk of closure.
More than 100 rural hospitals have closed nationwide between 2015 and 2026…
In addition, 56 rural hospitals have eliminated inpatient services since the beginning of 2023.
Lisa Kidder Hrobsky, at the American Hospital Association, said the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program was initially passed as a lifeline to hospitals, but it won’t offset the cuts to rural hospitals.
(Excerpt) Read more at chiefhealthcareexecutive.com ...
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Not possibly for being overrun by trespassing migrants not paying...............
26 rural hospitals at risk in Texas, with quality of care diminishing already. I wonder if that kind of situation could breed resentment against the political party that has been in charge in Texas for decades?
Its socialism at work.
Our vast, bloated, top-down and highly political health-care system runs on payments and orders from the center. Costs rise, regulations expand, corruption increases.
Its really about the insurance companies, the lawyers, Medicare cuts, and the Medicare cuts of Physicians that have eliminated private practice and made them ‘hospital dependents’.
NEVER underestimate the Federal Government’s ability to completely destroy an US industry and offshore it with Socialism.
An operation takes place in a room.
This is a nurse with a gown on and a cart with a set of scalpels, some hand tools such as clamps, some suture material and sometimes a stapling device and staples. She also has a suctioning device.
The patient is placed on a bed and draped.
There is a surgeon. He has gown on. He will refer to an imaging display device.
There is an anesthesiologist. He has an anesthesia machine, with heart and breathing monitoring, some gas tanks and tubing, a CO2 absorption container and material, and a mask for the patient. He will also have a few syringes and a vial with an off-patent pre-induction drug. He will also have airway management inserts and off-patent drugs in case there is a problem....
That’s what ObamaCare was designed to do.
Single-Payer is inevitable.
Dems will make sure they don’t .
You’re kind of oversimplifying.
And every one of those practitioners has the right to boost their charges if there are any complications.
I have an upcoming prostate surgery, a so-call brachytherapy, in which two tiny, tiny radioactive seeds are implanted into my peritoneum. This is a 15-minute robotic or robotic assisted surgery.
When I signed in for surgery, which was supposed to happen last month, thy kicked me out because I had drunk some coffee with milk earlier. So, re-schedule. But I saw the bill to Medicare for this surgery. It was $12K+.
And a $350 co-pay.
Well all those illegals have to go SOMEWHERE for their free “healthcare”
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There’s no cohesive, long range vision put forth the GOP as of now, to tackle and prioritize the matter, and set a new dynamic in motion.
To the contrary, Senator Josh Hawley (R) of Missouri said: “Don’t cut Medicaid.”
https://rollcall.com/2025/04/15/hawleys-change-of-heart-reflects-evolving-politics-of-medicaid/
The government was picking up those bills. A lot of these hospitals are training grounds for new doctors.
Seems like the quality of care has declined greatly since Obamacare started up.
Correct.
Maybe alladin el sayed could actually intern at one. Oh, wait, he’ll be too busy islamaphing the US. 😠
We love our little rural hospital. It’s part of the Covenant organization. Their huge facility in Knoxville we avoid like the plague, but the smaller ones are good. (IMO)
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