The shutdown of the floating hospital had nothing to do with supply and demand. People travel from all over the world for treatment in Boston.

They closed the floating hospital because it wasn’t profitable. The floating hospital was heavily utilized by low income minorities, more so than other local children’s hospitals, and they didn’t want to shoulder that cost anymore. Aside from protecting their bottom line there was also a sentiment of spite towards the other children’s hospitals that rejected low income patients and sent them to Tufts. This was all within the hospital admin and not the way patient facing staff felt.