aggiealum
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Just saw this story on 60 Minutes. These two nurse practitioners have been doing this for years, driving around in an old Winnebago providing free basic healthcare for those who can't afford to go to a doctor. They have doctors on-call that provide assistance, can fill out prescriptions, and is paid for with government grants and public donations. The people living in this region are dirt poor, and the majority of jobs available are minimum wage with no type of health benefits. The story said even with the pittance wages they make, they can't qualify for State Medicaid, and can't afford the Obamacare insurance exchanges since they also don't provide a subsidy for the income they make. Approximately 5 million people in that illustrious "donut hole" when it comes to getting low-cost health care. So as an alternative to ACA, do we just drum up more Winnebago's and provide the same services for the other 40 Million or so Americans that fall into this same category, or do we just leave them to their own demise simply because of the environments they happened to be born into?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/on-the-road-with-the-health-wagon/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/on-the-road-with-the-health-wagon/