In Virginia town, health fair tends to America's poor

[MiaCulpa]

Source: Raw Story

They came in their hundreds, America's uninsured and working poor, descending on this coal mining town in Virginia's southwest corner in search of the medical care they could not otherwise afford.

Some slept overnight in their cars in the grass parking lot in front of the Wise fairgrounds, where some 1,700 medical professionals had set up dental chairs, mammogram stations, panoramic X-ray machines and more, ready to diagnose maladies, numb mouths, pull teeth and take pap smears for Americans down on their luck and battered by economic realities.

And all for free.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/In_Virginia_town_health_fair_tends__07292009.html

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It's great that these medical professionals do this, but, in the USA people shouldn't have to line up to see a doctor in an animal stall at a fair grounds. The Blue Dogs should all have to visit one of these events...and pitch in to help!

-Diane

[Glorfindel]

1. I heard a citizen of Bristol (either TN or VA) on NPR this morning

delivering his opinion on health-care reform. The guy has three children on Medicaid (welfare), but he's strongly opposed to a public option because "the minorities" would get most of it. It's sad but true, there is no cure for stupidity.

[SharonAnn]

2. That's typical of the poor, right-wingers around here. Give me my Medicaid and SS Disability

but don't give any to anybody else.

It's really disheartening.

Actually, I forgot to note that soon the white population of the U. S. will not be the majority. We'll be a majority minority country.

[AlinPA]

3. I heard that too. Ignorant. Stupid. He has the ultimate "public option".

Exactly like "What's the Matter with Kansas".

[MiaCulpa]

4. Ah, a compassionate conservative. n/t