New York City opened its first new public hospital in more than 40 years this week in Brooklyn, a nearly $1 billion project that, like its namesake, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is built to withstand powerful storms.
While poor families juggled doctor visits and homeless people died on Orange County’s streets, the local agency they relied on for their public health plans sat on $1.2 billion in unspent cash.