US Rural Hospital Closures Since 2005
We&#x27;ve come a long way since Jefferson, Adams, and Madison opined that cities were &quot;the natural enemies of virtue and happiness.&quot; While I don&#x27;t want to go back to a world where more than 50% of the population is solely bound to food production, I do feel like we&#x27;re losing something. The real tension in the US, rural vs urban (not red vs blue), just continues to grow worse. I don&#x27;t know what the solution is, but I do know that robust systems usually avoid centralization, favoring variety and redundancy instead.