A company buying up all the dying rural hospitals is like the companies who have bought up all the dying rural newspapers. Except more assets to strip.
I recently read A Confederacy of Dunces, and my feeling was "Yuck. These people were all awful." I looked at reviews, and some people thought the same thing, and the others were like "Ha ha ha. These people are all awful. Isn’t this fun?"
And I was left wondering whether the two groups of people have had different life experiences. Some have had bitter experience of awful people and it'll never be something to enjoy.
I hope for the death of the recipe book with a separate recipe for every sort of nut or berry or so on that you can put into a cookie or a muffin with extremely modest adjustment.