Less facilities, more death

A lot of people can't afford health care, a lot can't even get insurance to dampen some of the costs of health care.  Public hospitals and clinics offer a ray of hope to that group.  All this aside,

the fundamental idea of closing any hospitals will definitely result in less facilities for people to access, more deaths because the hospitals are fewer and farther between in case of emergencies, and in current hospitals there will be more strain on the ER and other facilities because where are all those hundreds of people who used to go to the old hospital going to go?  They have to go somewhere...and they go to the next closest hospital which is already packed.  So all the extra pressure, people to take care of, will decrease the care and quality at the still open hospitals resulting in more deaths there as well.  Its a vicious cycle...not to mention all that pressure causing the already huge shortage of nurses and other providers to quit their jobs because they cant take it anymore.  

Its a vicious downward spiral.

www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2819_death_toll.html