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That sounds about right. Interestingly enough, they never even mentioned state lawmakers who needlessly waited over a decade to expand Medicaid, which made hospitals like this more likely to shutter. As a comment in the main thread made clear, this is very much a symptom of how fucked up our healthcare system is in this country, and how it's likely to get worse before it gets better.
However, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into the political side of the article's framing, and I noticed this passage:
I pulled up the voter registration in Williamston that seems to closely align with Mr. Woolard, as the name and address match records on Google. He registered as a Democrat for the first time in 2021. The first time this man ever voted in North Carolina was 11/08/2022. So if he's 73 years old he was born in 1951, which means he was eligible to vote in 1969. This man spent fifty-three years sitting on the sidelines, and is now bitching that elected officials "don't seem to care" and (for decades) made decisions about how the US healthcare system should be run, that are now negatively impacting his quality of life.
It could be that for fifty-three years Mr. Woolard let other people do his voting for him, and the elected representatives paid very close attention to what those people wanted. Seems like a perfect learning opportunity for Mr. Woolard to admit sitting on the sidelines is a terrible way to get what you want out of your elected representatives.