Public Hospitals on the decline......

We definitely need to do something about the closing of Public Hospitals in a time when they are required most. Public hospitals serve the underserved and individuals who cannot afford healthcare. If these were to close down, where would these individuals go?
Especially in the current times of economic reccession more people are losing their jobs and the pool of uninsured is increasing. These individuals then depend on the Public hospitals to take care of their health care needs. There has been an increased burden on these hospitals to provide care. This overstretches the system and has pushed many of these hospitals into bankruptcy. The very fact that these hospitals are overworked is a witness to the fact that they are required. And the solution to that is not closing them down for financial reasons but rather the state stepping in to finance them. This will not only take care of the underserved , many of whom come for acute problems rather than chronic but also keep our uninsured with no health care pool from rising.