Thousands of Texans Attend Largest Free Clinic Ever Held In U.S.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/28/thousands-texans-health/
Over the weekend, thousands of Texans attended what is being called the “largest free clinic ever held in the United States” to get health care they otherwise could not afford.Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of the physicians who worked at the clinic this weekend, compared what he saw there to the post-Katrina crisis.
Although this free clinic was especially needed in Texas, which currently has the largest uninsured population in the country, there have been similar events all over the country.
Last month, more than 1,300 patients showed up during a single weekend at a free dental clinic held in Parkersburg, West Virginia. A few days later, nearly 1500 people attended every day of an eight-day free clinic Remote Area Medical set up in Los Angeles. Former Cigna insurance executive and industry whistleblower Wendell Potter credits his 2007 visit to a Remote Area Medical clinic as opening his eyes to the health care crisis in the United States, and says it was instrumental in causing him to leave the industry and join the fight for universal health care.
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carmalite
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They are coming to N.O. next. Of course the Senators in Texas and Louisiana are against changing health care to help the uninsured.
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carmalite
