Emptying hospitals was a local decision. If you have ever had a sick grandparent or great grandparent, you'll know that Medicare and "social workers" make decisions on when you are released from hospitals. if you are readmitted they have 48 hours to off load you to a rehab center so the hospital doesn't get charged with a readmission. Rehab centers are a holding bin where there are few if any good results. When you dump all the Medicare patients there, it is very, very bad and everyone knows it is. Do you want a federal agent in every hospital fine. But as we know governors and mayors routinely don't follow federal guidelines in human resource matters. See immigration and sanctuary cities.