I also don't know the solution, but I'm reasonably sure closing essential services like hospitals is not part of it. Unfortunately, the kind of policies that mi

I also don't know the solution, but I'm reasonably sure closing essential services like hospitals is not part of it. Unfortunately, the kind of policies that might keep those places open get soundly rejected by people who live in those communities, or at least by the people who represent them. I grew up in a rural community and am sometimes wistful for it, but I don't want to move far away from medical care, internet, reliable power, and other basic services and all of those have only gotten worse where I grew up.