Submitted by bizgrrl on Mon, 2010/01/04 - 10:12am
Stan Brock, RAM Medical, and lots of volunteers were most recently in Union County, Tennessee, "offering free health care to the uninsured, the underinsured and the desperate".
But the most striking lesson might also be the most daunting: To fix health care inequities, expanding insurance alone may not be enough.
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Thanks for the link, Bizgirl. This is certainly a testimony for affordable health care for American citizens.
thanks for keeping us informed...
of the devastating effects of barriers to primary care caused by inadequate or no health insurance available to the working poor.
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