Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort.

Local officials predict an expensive future as new requirements—for technology, quality accounting and care coordination—start under the overhaul, which became law in March.

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