....free medical clinic for the uninsured today in Hartford...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvmk...layer_embedded

On 2/3/10 9:32 PM, Harry wrote:
...free medical clinic for the uninsured today in Hartford...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvmk...layer_embedded




HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

The Hartford Courant

2:49 PM EST, February 2, 2010

The National Association of Free Clinics, which has been hosting clinics
throughout the country since September, and hundreds of volunteers will
set up at the Connecticut Convention Center from noon to 7 p.m. today.
Organizers expect to draw about 1,000 patients.

They came by the hundreds in New Orleans, Little Rock, Kansas City and
Houston, lured by the offer of free health care at a one-day clinic. For
many patients, it was the first time they had seen a doctor in years.
Nearly all of them had jobs, just no health insurance.

Feb. 3 will be Hartford's turn for a one-day free medical clinic for
people with no health insurance.

The one-day clinics are intended to give the uninsured a chance to see
doctors and get exams or screenings they might have missed while
connecting them with the "safety net" health system that includes free
clinics, community or federally qualified health centers, and programs
at hospitals for those without insurance, said Nicole Lamoureux,
executive director of the National Association of Free Clinics, which
represents 1,200 clinics, including three in Connecticut.

Lamoureux said free clinics had a 40 percent to 50 percent increase in
patient demand in 2009 and a 20 percent drop in donations.

"While Congress is debating health care reform every single day, we
wanted to highlight the work of free clinics and the safety net and also
put a face on the uninsured," she said. "So when people are talking
about the uninsured, they really can see that many times, it is the
person next to you in the grocery line or the person you go to church with."

At the one-day clinics held late last year, about 80 percent of the
patients had jobs, Lamoureux said. Many of the patients had multiple
life-threatening conditions like cardiovascular disease, hypertension,
diabetes or pulmonary disease. For many, it was the first time they had
seen a doctor in at least five years.

Dr. Bruce Gould, medical director of the Burgdorf Health Center in
Hartford, has seen firsthand the effects of limited access to health
care. Patients who have no insurance or poor-quality insurance often
avoid medical care, delaying tests or treatment that could stop
illnesses before they become severe.

"It doesn't take a very high barrier to separate someone from the care
they need," said Gould, one of more than 100 doctors who will be
volunteering at the clinic.

Gould, the associate dean for primary care at the UConn Health Center
and medical director for Hartford's health department, recalled one
woman who came into his clinic, clearly septic — a potentially deadly
condition. He told her that he should admit her to the hospital. "And
she said, 'I'm still paying off the last admission. I'm not going to
go,'" Gould said.

The woman managed to get better with antibiotics — a lucky break, Gould
said.

"For every story like her, there's a whole bunch of people just dying at
home or coming in so late that there's nothing we can do, or coming in
so late that they end up never returning to a functional lifestyle, so
the rest of us pay," he said.

Visitors to the clinic in Hartford will receive a physical exam, vision
screening and tests that will be appropriate for them; spend time with a
doctor to ask questions; and receive information on programs or clinics
where they can receive care in the future.

"When they leave this clinic, they are empowered not just with an
appointment but also with knowledge and the peace of mind that somebody
cared about them and wanted to know what was going on in their life,"
Lamoureux said.

Organizers have asked that patients make appointments, but they will
also treat walk-ins on a first-come, first-served basis. In the other
four cities, the clinics managed to see every patient and accommodate
walk-ins, although in Kansas City, where 2,600 people turned out, 25 to
35 patients were turned away and given appointments for care elsewhere.

Connecticut has a lower rate of uninsured residents than the nation as a
whole. An estimated 310,000 people in the state, or 9 percent of the
population, lacked health insurance in 2008, according to census figures
released last fall.

But in some pockets in the state, the rate of uninsured is far higher.
In both Bridgeport and Stamford, 20 percent of residents, or more than
25,000 people, had no health insurance. In Hartford, just under 15
percent of residents were uninsured at the time they were surveyed.

And like those who have come to the free clinics, the vast majority of
the uninsured have jobs, according to state and federal figures. In
2008, more than 80 percent of the uninsured were in working families —
and about two-thirds were from families with one or more full-time
workers, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The free clinic is "a very small blip in trying to deal with the larger
problem of 50 million people who have no access to health care," Gould said.

But it could also connect patients with ongoing care. And, he hopes, it
could inspire other health care workers to continue treating patients
who do not have health insurance or to become active politically to push
for changes in the health care system.

"Regionally, there is some benefit in trying to coalesce the health care
community and to highlight the unmet need that exists out there," he
said. "Unfortunately, we don't want to see it and so we don't see it.
But it's always there."



"It doesn't take a very high barrier to separate someone from the care
they need."

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HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.

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HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.


unlike you, sucking at the government tit.

Ease up on the wine Swill...you're mixing me up with JohnnyPrepH.

On Feb 3, 9:02*pm, "Don White" wrote:
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m... On 2/3/10 9:32 PM, Harry wrote:
...free medical clinic for the uninsured today in Hartford...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvmk...layer_embedded

HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.

And I believe I've read that Marland has free community centers for
the mentally ill.

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HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.


unlike you, sucking at the government tit.

On Feb 3, 9:32*pm, Harry wrote:
...free medical clinic for the uninsured today in Hartford...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvmk...layer_embedded

He'd still find a way to shaft them outta something financial.

On Feb 3, 10:29*pm, GC Boater wrote:
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om... On 2/3/10 9:32 PM, Harry wrote:
...free medical clinic for the uninsured today in Hartford...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvmk...layer_embedded

HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.

And I believe I've read that Marland has free community centers for
the mentally ill.

" Marland" ?? Looks like the spoofers in the sauce....again.

Bill McKee wrote:
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On 2/3/10 9:32 PM, Harry wrote:
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HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.


unlike you, sucking at the government tit.


If Canadian healthcare was so great, Don would have gotten his legs
fixed. All those years of riding the mechanical bull in the taverns has
taken its toll in old Don. Wish I had saved his Photo so I could show
you the problem.

On Feb 4, 9:24*am, Harry wrote:
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On 2/3/10 9:32 PM, Harry wrote:
...free medical clinic for the uninsured today in Hartford...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWvmk...layer_embedded

HARTFORD
For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

snip....

One day wouldn't be enough time to treat his problems.

unlike you, sucking at the government tit.

If Canadian healthcare was so great, Don would have gotten his legs
fixed. All those years of riding the mechanical bull in the taverns has
taken its toll in old Don. Wish I had saved his Photo so I could show
you the problem.

But since you're a spoofer, AND full of ****...you have no "picture".
Get a life.