that you can't vote DOWN the video or make a comment.

I chose to report it has 'hateful or abusing vulnerable individuals.'

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1) There are no working poor who lack medical care. All of the 1020 people to have attended this Remote Area Medical event were just temporarily unemployed. Or temporarily senior citizens.

2) The problem is Obamacare. That's why so many of the event attendees needed just dental or vision care at this event. Corker would have supported Obamacare if it had included dental and vision care.

3) The task is to expand events of the sort RAM conducts. Because asking hundreds upon hundreds of people to arrive at events like this the night before, sleep in their cars, then stretch out on examination tables packed into school gymnasiums to be quite publicly examined like the pieces of meat that they are is okey-dokey and what's wrong with two markedly different levels of healthcare for the Haves versus the Have Nots, anyway?

From Washington Post …

“I need to get my top plate,” he said, opening his mouth and running his studded tongue along the top row of gums. “They pulled all my top teeth out last year. I’m going tomorrow, when it slows down a bit, to get new ones.”

Window guy can’t get more than 30 hours a week at McDonald’s, so he can’t get employer-paid health insurance. “I just wait all year for RAM. That’s my health care.”

At a huge free medical clinic in southwest Virginia, misery that shouldn’t exist

Corker is a hypocrite and a fool. He argues we should make it easier for groups like RAM to do their work. The goal should be that RAM is not needed at all in America. But, Obama!

I could only take 3 minutes of it. Sheesh.

still possess some robust explanatory power.

And insult by Corker. But golly gee, aren't we lucky to live in TN where we allow these doctors to come here and help people? Derp.

How does that man look at himself in the mirror? What an ass.

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Brock said a solution needs to come from the federal government. “To get the rest of the states to do what has been done in just three or four states is just going to take so long that in my view it has to be a federal mandate,” he said.

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Most of those at Saturday’s clinic had no access to coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Many would qualify for Medicaid under the law’s expanded provisions, but Tennessee and Georgia have not expanded their programs. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has said he hopes to present a plan for Medicaid expansion this fall.

Corker wouldn’t talk about Medicaid expansion, saying it was a state decision, but said he had talked with federal health officials about Haslam’s so-called “Tennessee Plan.”

Many would qualify for Medicaid under the law’s expanded provisions...

Eric, concerning these folks who don't qualify for TennCare, but who might have been covered under an expanded Medicaid program: Do you happen to know at exactly what income levels these folks are, who are caught in the lurch?

I've been meaning to ask that for ages...

You gotta admire Haslam's people who said their rollout is taking so long because they didn't want to make the same mistakes that Obama's HHS did, which caused a delay of a few weeks. Wouldn't want to rush anything.

This is why I'm not attending the Legacy Parks luncheon this year.

For every 1000 people attending these medical events, there are probably 100,000 more in dire need of medical or dental attention, and can't afford it.
Wake up Corker.

I wonder if Senator Corker wrote a nice size check to Remote Area Medical after this interview so they could continue to provide medical/dental care to his constituents. Maybe he is waiting till he can have the large foam board one printed up so he can make it into a photo-op.

I was at a RAM dinner tonight and spent a long time talking to Stan Brock. We talked about The video with Corker, health care in TN and health care in America. Let's say he's very diplomatic when discussing these issues, but ultimately he did say a single payer system would be good. He also said France probably had the best health care in the world and Italy was second, while the National Health Service in England is riddled with problems.

He had never heard of The Daily Show when they interviewed him (be doesn't own a TV) but he was forewarned it was something of a spoof.

Long live Stan Brock!

I knew I liked this man.

(Kept my only set, a 13 inch, in the closet until I married and pulled it out just to view the occasional movie. But then I married. Many years later, I still haven't gotten used to the decibel level in my home evenings and pine for the quiet I used to enjoy...)