Public hospital closures indicate a failing system

Many public hospitals are being forced to close because the cost of treating their underserved community is not adequately covered by their revenues. This causes the remaining public hospitals to be further burdened and the underserved  to be even more underserved. This trend of public hospital closures is  indicative of a failing system. Although the notion of universal healthcare may seem like a radical notion, in many ways we are already providing it... just very inefficiently. There are many groups we have deemed eligible for government provided healthcare and for the remaining we have county hospitals. 

The more public hospitals we lose the more burden is placed on county hospitals, which by government decree cannot turn away their underserved. As the underserved community grows we are forced to open more institutions that specifically cater to them usually using government funds or grants. This is further burdening the system, especially due to the inefficiency of many different small clinics rather than the existence of one well funded hospital.  The transition towards universal healthcare is upon us.