• Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    “They blame Trump”

    No, they didn’t. The medical facility didn’t blame trump, the article didn’t blame trump, and there’s no proof that any of the citizens blame trump.

    This is actually what the article says:

    Curtis Medical Center to close after 30 years, citing inflation and uncertain federal funding

    And then, later in the article it mentions how there’s supposedly $50 billion coming from the feds to assist rural providers, and how disappointing it is that they’ve made this decision before the federal aid has been finalized.

    This is being portrayed as a business decision to close this town’s only healthcare facility. Anyone reading the article would have to believe that trump has anything to do with inflation or cutting funding, and a community that has over 85% of their people voting for trump doesn’t believe that.

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      4 hours ago

      “Something is eating my face but it’s definitely not the leopard I voted for, it’s all business as usual!”

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      There’s a reason hospitals get bigger and bigger. Economics drive scale and communities that cannot drive scale will fall behind regardless what the government does.