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Former Cowboy Provides Free Medical Care To World's Poor

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Vision, Unemployed, Video, Homelessness, Stan Brock, Optometry, Remote Area Medical, Medical Care, Poor, Dentist, Impact News

The costs of medical attention can be exorbitant for a low-income family or an unemployed person -- even if the needs are the same. That's why Stan...

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Volunteer Doctors Can't Keep Up With Health Care Demands of Uninsured and Underinsured

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Uninsured, Underinsured, Remote Area Medical, Chicago, Health Care Reform, Oklahoma, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Politics News

The health care reform law will go a long way toward solving the access problem in this country. When fully implemented, the number of uninsured Americans will drop by an estimated 30 million. But more than 20 million others will still be uninsured.

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Doctors Treating Sick in Africa Now Aid U.S. Uninsured

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Uninsured, Health Care, Chicago, Remote Area Medical, Impact News

I wish every candidate for public office would be required to spend an hour or two volunteering at one of the free clinics operated throughout the country by a nonprofit organization, Remote Area Medical.

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An Illuminating Expedition to the World of the Uninsured

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Nashville, Congress, Health; Health Care; Health Insurance; Universal Healthcare; Barack Obama; John Mccain; British Healthcare; David Cameron; Hillary Clinton; Mandates; Premiums; Uninsured Millions; United Kingdom; London; British Conservatives; Liberals, Uninsured, Health Care, Remote Area Medical, Politics News

As the new Congress seeks ways to starve the new health care reform law of necessary funding it's easy to lose sight of the reasons why reform was pursued in the first place.

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What Civilized Country Operates Like This?

Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harvard, Duke University Medical Center, Remote Area Medical, Kristof, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Keith Olbermann, T.R. Reid, Pre-Existing-Condition, Politics News

What civilized country operates like this? In case God-and-country defenders of the status quo need reminding, America's for-profit health insurance system serves neither.

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DC Armory Wants Group To Pay $77,000 To Host Free Medical Clinic

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Remote Area Medical, Free Clinic, Temporary Clinic, Senate Health Care Bill, Washington DC, Non-Profit, Public Health, DC Armory, Health Care, Health Insurnace, Ram, Video, Home News

A non-profit group that provides free medical treatment to those in need is running into fees and regulations that could derail its plans to treat tho...

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Going Barefoot

Jordan Hoffman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care, Nutrition, Wellness, Remote Area Medical, Healthy Living News

With all the talk in the media about health care reform, there are some who say we have the best health care system in the world. If this is true, then the definition I am choosing to use is the one I saw on display all last week.

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Healthcare: It's a You-and-Me World

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Forum, American Health Care System, Remote Area Medical, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Los Angeles, Lynne Twist, Barack Obama, Politics News

Those who are opposing health care reform seem to think that if we provide services for the uninsured, that we will somehow be taking away from them.

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While Congress Dallies, Desperate Americans Seek Free Health Care

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Collins, Ron Wyden, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Stan Brock, Universal Healthcare, Remote Area Medical, Olympia Snowe, Joe Lieberman, Ram, Mary Landrieu, Healthcare, Politics News

The day before six centrist Senators signed a letter to halt health care reform, citizens were lining up for health care provided by Remote Area Medical, a non-profit relief corps dedicated to providing free health care.

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Congress Needs to Wake Up on Healthcare

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Option, 60 Minutes, Cbs, Healthcare, Remote-Area-Medical, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News

Health care should not be a technocratic debate about "affordability." It should be a conversation about solutions to the fear that cripples a vast segment of the American public.

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That Other "60 Minutes" Story: About 47 Million Uninsured Americans Desperate For Health Care

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Pelley, Democratic Nomination, Stan Brock, Remote Area Medical, Hillary Clinton, 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Ram, Eat the Press, Video, Media News

Hey, did you see that shocking video clip from 60 Minutes the other night? The one about an issue pivotal about the current Democratic campaign?

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