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Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:05 PM
Sep 22

About how many jobs will be lost. Yea, we’re talking people’s healthcare and lives, but in most rural counties the local hospital is a major employer akin to any large manufacturing facility. Politicians would bend over backwards to save a plant, but a hospital system? They wouldn’t lift a finger.

Dems need to focus on job loses and tax base decay when they bring up this issue. Voters and politicians respond more to people working than saving people’s lives(for the most part).

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