Our Ailing Public Hospitals — Cure Them or Close Them?

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In several major cities, authorities have announced their intention to sell, close, or drastically cut the services of public hospitals.13 Reductions in payments for the elderly and poor from federal, state, and local governments threaten the viability of institutions that have served the public in some instances for more than a century. For many of us, even their names — Boston City Hospital, L.A. County Hospital, Jackson Memorial, Grady, and Bellevue — evoke memories of a time when public hospitals were a proud symbol of the dedication of staff physicians and nurses to the needy and represented the very . . .

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