On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Tom Martz wrote:
> Free health clinic to open in Concord > Contra Costa Times 9 Sep 2009 > A free health care clinic for the uninsured will open for the first > time Thursday night at Cambridge Elementary School in the Monument > corridor. The clinic will be funded with donations and grants from > Concord Rotary, John Muir Hospitals and the Kaiser Permanente > Community Benefit Program, among others. > It's not like it is a new idea. They used to be all over the country. Most of them have been driven under or to give up the charity aspect by legal compliance costs and law suits (you can be sued for malpractice even when the service was a charity) or the fact that much of their target population has gone to Medicaid (and because of this last point, less people donate to them: "Aren't I already paying to give poor people medical care?"). What is interesting is: how are they going to do it in such a way that they can survive where ever other such charity has gone under? If they have a way that works, it needs to be copied. Sincerely, Eric Vought "Faith does not absolve us from trying to understand our world and make moral distinctions with the eyes and brain given us. Religion is as much responsibility as direction: Duty not Distinction." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
