Rural hospitals have been getting shut down for years now due to it not being a great money maker, it’s the same reason rural Americans wouldn’t have to their door mail access without it being included in the Constitution.
Even without taking population density into account, access is only going to get worse when hospitals keep shuttering.
The mayor says that it’s because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).
US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.
Well, that’d require us to stop being a 3rd world country. GDP aside more than 1 in 10 Americans live in relative poverty.
There are few effective social programs and a very authoritarian power structure even before the incoming clusterfuck.
The US is absolutely not a third world country. Now, a developing country . . .
Italy’s population density is twice that of the US.
Rural hospitals have been getting shut down for years now due to it not being a great money maker, it’s the same reason rural Americans wouldn’t have to their door mail access without it being included in the Constitution.
Even without taking population density into account, access is only going to get worse when hospitals keep shuttering.