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13 October
5:34 pm

Hospitals were making the decisions to close birth centers because they didn't see them as profitable anymore.

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Troy Jackson, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 3 (WABI/WAGM)

5:34 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific causal claim about why birth centers closed in Maine — attributing closures to hospital profitability decisions rather than other factors like Medicaid funding is a verifiable and contested assertion.
What we foundProfitability is a documented contributing factor in birth center closures, but evidence shows it is one of several causes, is not always the primary driver, and some hospitals explicitly deny financial motives for specific closures.
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