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Published on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by NBC News - Connecticut
As House and Senate Fumble Health Reform, Free Clinics Still Serving the Uninsured Sick
Massive Health Clinic for Uninsured Comes to Hartford
In New Orleans, health care providers with Communities Are Responding Everyday treated 1,000 patients. In Houston, they saw 1,700. On Wednesday, they will be caring for people in Hartford.
When the only requirement is that patients 'have no medical insurance' the lines are sure to be long. (Getty image) div>The C.A.R.E. Clinic is a one-day event, where you can get free health care for all types of medical issues.
"Many people are forced to make tough choices between putting food
on the table or paying rent on the one hand and getting needed medical
treatment on the other," according to the National Association of Free Clinics executive director Nicole Lamoureux. "We hold large C.A.R.E.
Clinics not only to provide immediate care to many uninsured people but
also to connect them with the free clinics and other safety-net
providers that can offer them care on an ongoing basis."
As the people of C.A.R.E have cared for others, they have found
that 90 percent of the patients they are seeing have three or more life
threatening conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension,
that are going untreated and many haven't seen a doctor for five or
more years.
The only requirement to attend is that you have no health insurance.
"Eighty three percent of our patients have a job, so we wanted to highlight the face of the uninsured knowing that uninsured doesn't equal unemployed," Lamoureux said.
"Eighty three percent of our patients have a job, so we wanted to highlight the face of the uninsured knowing that uninsured doesn't equal unemployed," Lamoureux said.
You can check out the C.A.R.E. Clinic at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford from noon until 7 p.m. Call 1-877-233-5159 to set up an appointment. Medical and non-medical volunteers are still needed.
While the future of health care is being debated in Washington, D.C. this clinic is a non-partisan event.
"The clinic is not meant to promote anyone's political agenda and
political activity at the event will not be permitted," Lamoureux said.
© 2010 NBC News
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Show AllGod bless these caring individuals who haven't been blinded to their own humanity, compliments of most Medical School's macho and elitist forced internship/indoctrination and torture programs!
And curse the goldbricks in Club FED and sad sacks in the CONgress!
From the article: " "The clinic is not meant to promote anyone's political agenda and political activity at the event will not be permitted," Lamoureux said. "
Im sure this is true but in reality the right wing wins again here. In their view this is how the poor are supposed to be care for, by volunteer charity.
Capitalist "healthcare":
"GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's second largest drug maker by revenue, reported Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit soared by 66 percent, boosted by strong sales of swine flu vaccine and flu medicine."
That's what the hyped flu "pandemic" was about. Did you notice it wasn't ever an epidemic? It went straight from "threat" to "pandemic".
What is the worth of a human life? Does it matter which human life? All who believe in a god surely believe that each human life is as valuable as the other. We spend millions to send a person to kill and be killed or maimed in wars for profit, but we refuse to spend a few thousand to provide a person health care. Of course! I forgot about socialism in universal health care. Oh curses! But, you know, I am thinking that our military is pretty close to socialism...and health care is pretty close to being a caste system. The "undesireables" are well, undesireable and unworthy... Many Christians say that openly.