What is Caring For The Uninsured in Wise County, VA about?”
This weekend, as congressmen, staffers, and lobbyists clamor to pass a bill to provide health coverage to the 75 million under or uninsured, volunteer doctors and nurses will be busily working to help those without access to health care. This free clinic in rural Virginia will provide free care to hundreds, many of whom will not receive any other medical attention until the same time next year. The Wise County Remote Area Medical clinic will set up its makeshift examining tents at the Virginia/Kentucky Fair Grounds. Last year, the 20-bed clinic saw more than 1,500 patients in two and a half days, and the volunteers treated cases of diabetes, cancer, and dental infections. “If you go down there you will see this from a different perspective,” says Wendell Potter, a former health care executive who is now speaking out against the health care industry. Potter changed sides in the insurance battle after witnessing the Wise County clinic two years ago. Presumably, our leaders on Capitol Hil
This weekend, as congressmen, staffers, and lobbyists clamor to pass a bill to provide health coverage to the 75 million under or uninsured, volunteer doctors and nurses will be busily working to help those without access to health care. This free clinic in rural Virginia will provide free care to hundreds, many of whom will not receive any other medical attention until the same time next year. The Wise County Remote Area Medical clinic will set up its makeshift examining tents at the Virginia/Kentucky Fair Grounds. Last year, the 20-bed clinic saw more than 1,500 patients in two and a half days, and the volunteers treated cases of diabetes, cancer, and dental infections. “If you go down there you will see this from a different perspective,” says Wendell Potter, a former health care executive who is now speaking out against the health care industry. Potter changed sides in the insurance battle after witnessing the Wise County clinic two years ago. Presumably, our leaders on Capitol Hil
