Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps : NPR

It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out.

Some had arrived at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Va., two days before. They slept in cars, tents and the beds of pickup trucks, hoping to be among the first in line when the gate opened Friday before dawn. They drove in from 16 ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Health, Politics, U.S., World
Topics: Health Care, Poverty
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Posted by: Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul 28, 2009 - 4:34 PM PDT
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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Jul. 28, 2009

Informative very- when you consider the heath care debate, NPR should mail this article to every member of Congress and the power brokers at the White House. To bad they did not do a side bar on Medicaid.

I know that Medicaid is a joke with no coverage for vision or normal dental but this fantastic article shows just how bad America is; A Third World ... More »

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