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Joseph Q. Jarvis: Medical-industrial complex doesn’t deliver health care

(Jay Reeves | AP file photo) Closed signs hang on a recently closed Pickens County Medical Center in Carrollton, Ala., on March 26. The hospital is one of the latest health care facilities to fall victim to a wave of rural hospital shutdowns across the United States in recent years. With hundreds of other hospitals endangered, residents are worried about getting health care amid the coronavirus outbreak, and administrators are trying to keep other facilities afloat.