The Largest Free Clinic in the United States
This should not be in a first world country:
- 1300 people showed up for a free dental clinic in Parkesburg, WVA.
- Then. the Remote Area Medical crew see 1500 people per day, in a free clinic over 8 days in Los Angeles.
- This weekend, 2000 people in Houston came to a free clinic (Texas having the largest uninsured population in the country)
And don’t forget that Remote Area Medical pretty routinely conducts clinics in rural parts of the US, providing medical, dental and vision service to the uninsured.
You cannot lay claim to the best health care in the world if massive numbers of your citizens have to wait for a British charity to provide that care. Period.
Make sure you call Senator Tom Carper today to tell him to vote for a public option — because that is the only way to keep insurance companies honest and to ensure that everyone gets access to the best health care in the world.
Seeeee. We already have universal care. No reform needed. Next topic!
Also, in deference to the seriousness of the topic, I will even forgo any West Virginia/dental comments that are just screaming to get out.
Our state universal health care plan called Delacare has community health clinics.
Mike Protack
Did he pay for that ad?
Protack: Doesn’t support letting people buy cheaper public health insurance. Instead prefers state-taxpayer-supported free emergency clinics for people who’ve allowed things to get pretty bad because they couldn’t afford insurance and just hoped their problems would “go away”.
“Our state universal health care plan called Delacare has community health clinics.”
Mike Protack
Protack lies. Delacare deals with mental health, developmental disability issues and daycare oversight.
It does not have any “community health clinics.”
Delacrat – He called his own plan for his ’08 campaign “Delacare,” not to be confused with the already-existing state plan “Delacare,” that you mentioned. That’s an easy point of confusion. I’ll leave the other part of the conversation (using an already-existing plan name to highlight his “own”) up for grabs.