Hmm...Someone we all know and love (moi) said
this almost two years ago!
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I have the best health care available.
I have a physician/nurse available to me 24/7.
I have free medications.
I visit a clean, well-staffed, medical center and receive first-class quality medical care from professionals - many of whom are former military.
Here's an idea!
Nearly every city/town/populated area in this nation has at least one "closed" hospital. Hell, over here there's two operating at limited capacity and one entire hospital closed.
Why not make them clinics for those without healthcare? FREE!
Hire the unemployed (yes, they're out there) physicians, nurses, clerks, whatever (and here's an idea...if they're not - TRAIN SOME! - to staff these clinics.
Health care - RESOLVED.
Unemployment - REDUCED.
Sam - SHUT UP!
I guess people are
listening.In 2014, a little more than two short years away, the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are designed to expand coverage will kick in, initiating a deluge of insurance-card-carrying Americans into the health care system. These disproportionately low-income, newly insured people will live in every state and community in the country. Unless we act now, they stand to join the ranks of the “medically disenfranchised”—the more than 50 million already insured Americans who have no regular access to primary health care for lack of physicians and facilities in their local communities.
...the way to meet the flood of new patients coming down the pike is to expand the nation’s existing network of community health centers— nonprofit clinics that offer primary care to the medically under-served, often in rural areas or inner cities...
