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rightiswrong
03-02-2008, 07:54 PM
This is one of the best arguments for UNIVERSAL healthcare I've seen yet.

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Group Finds It's Needed In America To Plug Health Insurance Gap


(CBS) Stan Brock founded the Remote Area Medical organization to bring free medicine to the Third World, where it was most needed. But increasingly, he's finding thousands of needy patients right here in the U.S., where 47 million people have no health insurance.

Brock speaks to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

He became familiar with the needs of remote peoples through his days working on a South American cattle ranch and as zoologist Marlon Perkins’ muscle-bound assistant in the pioneering television nature show "Wild Kingdom."
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talidapali
03-02-2008, 11:54 PM
This is my hometown, Knoxville, in this story.

Dr. Kim ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) runs a clinic here and treats people who can't pay, and he showed up on a weekend to help with this event. The InterFaith Clinic here treats more. The county health department treats patients too, and yet...when they asked for volunteers only 4 doctors from Knoxville showed up out of the 276 medical personnel that came to give of their time; of the 52 dentists that showed up to give free dental care...only 9 were from the local area.

I am so ashamed of my hometown.

Home of the Tennessee Volunteers indeed.