Socialised healthcare is a nice solution. Governments can run healthcare at a loss in rural areas to ensure that large areas of the country remain viable/attractive to live in. A subsidy from cities to the countryside, certainly. It works in many European countries, at least. Standardising staff wages nationally (which is often seen with socialised care) + living cost adjustment, has the effect of allowing people who enjoy the country to work there, and people who enjoy cities to work there, rather than see the biggest and best hospitals push salaries up to levels that small hospitals can never keep up with. Winner takes all dynamics are not good in geographically distributed healthcare systems.
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