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Why a Georgia hospital closes – and a red state rethinks Medicaid
Not long ago, news that Jenkins County Medical Center would close in this former cotton crossroads suggested a tough truth: that people and jobs were disappearing, leaving many poor and uninsured people in another struggling Southern town. The Great …