Remote Area Medical - A Volunteer Group Making a Difference »
Posted By bubba2 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & FitnessI have always had medical insurance through my jobs. Once we retired and were ready to move to Tennessee, I made sure I purchased individual medical insurance through Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee for my husband and I.
I did not realize then that so many people did not have medical insurance. I am talking about 2001, before this recession hit.
The poor people of Appalachia were, and still are, in dire need of everything. These are people who never had medical insurance or medical care. Nor did they have vision care or dental care. They had nothing, until a group known as Remote Area Medical (RAM) was formed in 1985.
They started small and have grown large over time and have held over 575 health fairs in the United States. RAM is no longer for just the poor of Appalachia; they are helping out as many poor and uninsured in the United States as they can.
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Because, as often is the case, they only state that which benefits their point of view as the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
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This greatest health care in the world is available, if you can afford it, by personal wealth or through an adequate insurance plan. What they turn a blind eye on, is the fact that many cannot afford insurance at all, or, in many cases adequate insurance. To them, if you fall in this category, you eighter don't want coverage, or you are too stupid to have a job that pays enough to afford the coverage. They feel you should better yourself to the point where you can afford it. It completely goes over their head, that to many, the availability of work that pays enough to cover these cost's, are often nonexistent, or next to, depending on where you live. They fail to understand, that for society to work, not every single working individual can be in a managerial position, where income generally, but not allways is high enough to bring private "adequate" coverage into the realm of possibility. They all to often turn a blind eye to the little person, and their needs, except when it comes to election time, when they become the best thing in the world next to home made apple pie. I think it goes back as far to Marie Antoinette's time or so .....................
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