Today's "Public Option" -- Inside The Los Angeles Free Clinic

Los Angeles Free Clinic Offers Portrait Of Today's Dysfunctional Health Care

While the media is busy at assaying the ever-shifting political calculus over health care -- who's up, who's down? -- it's worth remembering that actual people are actually struggling to fill their actual healthcare needs. Over at The Awl, Natasha Vargas-Cooper puts a human face on the way many Los Angelenos are currently receiving their health care.
Splayed out on a show floor generally reserved for millionaire athletes and rock bands are: a hundred dental chairs; five RVs filled with X-ray equipment; mammogram machines; a 60-person triage station; rubber gloved paramedics; long picnic tables of surgical equipment; and about 1,000 recipients of free healthcare. Since last Tuesday and until tomorrow, the Forum in Inglewood is the biggest free healthcare clinic in Los Angeles. The bill will be picked up by the Remote Area Medical Expedition, a 1,300-person volunteer effort of medical professionals. RAM got their start treating villagers in the Amazon in 1985. Now they have ventured to the first world--their first time treating patients in Los Angeles.
This is what passes for the "public option," circa today. LinkHere