Orange County residents debated the accessibility of health care and a possible tax rate increase at a town hall meeting Thursday before voters decide whether to create a hospital district later this month. Baptist Hospital in Orange ended inpatient care in 2015 and shuttered its emergency room in January 2017, forcing residents to travel outside the county for care. One proposed solution is to create a hospital district, an entity that would be run by a board of directors and could collect taxes to fund a hospital or partner with a private company to operate one.

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