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Posted By svivar9087 4 months ago in NewsStan Brock, who founded RAM in 1985 to bring medical care to Third World countries, told me that in 1992 he began getting requests to do the same work in the United States.
"The people we're seeing here have teeth as bad as the people in the Upper Amazon," said Brock, who used to tangle with wild beasts on "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."
It would be nice if we could send Brock to the nation's capital and have him grab the vipers and hyenas by their necks until they work out a healthcare reform plan. But Brock has a better idea: The nation's leaders should instead come spend a day at one of his clinics and learn a thing or two.
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I have always been one, that has never learned to accept and keep quiet,
when I know it is not the right thing to do ...
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I had the chance to witness, the crowds, the sad faces, the pain and desperation among those in line with me, for a chance at a free medical check up. Since it was in my back yard, I had to see for myself. I tried on the first day 5am... to late all 1,500 tickets were already gone. “Ok”, I thought I'd try Friday night, camp out with a couple of neighbors, and thinking "party night" maybe it’ll be a slow night I think I have a chance. This time I showed up at mid night, just to find out all tickets where already taken for the entire event....so I volunteered (being bi-lingual), I lasted an hour....it was heart-breaking!
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