Looks like it will be some time before we manage to widen health insurance to cover most of the working poor, but meantime one doctor in New Mexico is running a clinic for precisely those uninsured folks. He provides most services at cost, saving the patients from the 10-fold higher fees that the emergency room would charge (and/or saving the rest of us the insurance increases that come from use of the emergency room as a doctor of last resort).
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Also in the heartening news department
Looks like it will be some time before we manage to widen health insurance to cover most of the working poor, but meantime one doctor in New Mexico is running a clinic for precisely those uninsured folks. He provides most services at cost, saving the patients from the 10-fold higher fees that the emergency room would charge (and/or saving the rest of us the insurance increases that come from use of the emergency room as a doctor of last resort).
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