Single Payer Could Stop the Rural Hospital Closure Crisis
By Frances Gill for the People’s Policy Project. Photo: In 2015, Novant Health made the decision to close down Franklin Medical Center, in Louisburg. Photo credit: Taylor Sisk America’s rural hospitals are closing down at an alarming rate. According to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, there were seventy-two rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2016, close […]