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Why Grand Forks Has Put Money into Health Care - The Tyee

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Paying for health care is not the job of a municipality. Grand Forks and a handful of other local governments are doing it anyway.

Last year, a local physician warned Grand Forks’ council that two of the town’s five doctors were planning to leave the community. In response, the municipality, alongside a local non-profit and the region’s electoral area directors, committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover the costs of operating the local medical clinic.

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