What It Looks Like When a Hospital Erases $11.9 Million in debt

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10. Boston's hospitals are where they are because of miasma theory

In the 19th century it was thought the high ground had fewer miasmas than low-lying land, so the hospitals were built there, and there they are still today.

There are 23 hospitals in Boston -- that's too many. But they're nearly all crowded into a small area next to each other. So huge swathes of the city are underserved. It's worse in rural areas, of course, but there it is. We need to have fewer, larger, hospitals, and they need to be in different places than they are. The economics of that will eventually force the closures, if nothing else (and MFA would accelerate that with the lower reimbursement rates). And you're right: a huge problem nobody's talking about is that nobody's going to magically create the nurses, medical aides, physicians, physicians' assistants, med techs, etc. that we'd need to actually provide healthcare for the entire country. There aren't enough providers as it is.