Archive for July 30th, 2009

30 07 2009

Uninsured camp out for free healthcare

Posted by: emperor in Health Care, Social Issues, Uncategorized

This is the kind of thing I would expect to see in some third world country. Or perhaps in America in the wake of a natural disaster.

This isn’t my vision of what America should be. Is it yours?

From July 24-26, I attended the RAM event at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia. The area is in the Appalachian Mountain region bordering Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina.

People received numbers and started lining up to enter the health clinic around 4 a.m.

For those who did not receive the full range of health care they needed, they spent the night in their cars and returned the next day.

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