Articles of Interest
Balloon launch scheduled to support teen battling seizures
By Kim Walter
The Northern Virginia Daily, August 8, 2012
Improve Medicare to help address health care system
By Raymond Feierabend, M.D.
Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier, Letters, July 29, 2012
Fear and Waiting: What the Wise County Clinic Means This Year
By Marcella Mroczkowski
The Huffington Post: The Blog, July 22, 2012
First day of Wise RAM clinic draws 1,700
By Steve Igo
Kingsport Times-News, July 20, 2012
Motorcyclist hurt in crash faces high bill for helicopter ride
By Alex Bridges
The Northern Virginia Daily, June 30, 2012
Cuccinelli says Constitution, states' sovereignty preserved
By Sally Voth
The Northern Virginia Daily, June 28, 2012
Marina will host fundraiser to help cover healthcare costs for local boy
By Staff Reports
Elizabethton Star, June 25, 2012
Hoagie Sale/Gas card raffle fundraisers July 12 will benefit John Huffman of Troutville Fire Department
By Dee Dee Bruce, The Botetourt View
The Roanoke Times, June 22, 2012
A stronger prescription for what ails health care
By Eugene Robinson
Washingtonpost.com, March 29, 2012
Health care law proceedings have clinic director's attention
By Joe Beck
Northern Virginia Daily, March 28, 2012
Brief on Behalf of Single Payer Action, It's Our Economy, and Fifty Medical Doctors Who Support Single Payer as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents (Minimum Coverage Provision)
By Oliver B. Hall, Counsel of Record
February 13, 2012
Healthcare costs decrease over time when low-income uninsured are provided coverage
Press Release
UC Irvine TODAY, February 09, 2012
Park City Vantage Point Puts Tragedy of American Health Care in Vivid Relief
By Wendell Potter
Huffington Post, January 23, 2012
Transcript of Interview with Wendell Potter
By Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers Journal, July 10, 2009
Virginia Right! Blogger Visits Occupy Richmond and is Shocked by What He Finds
By Tom White
Virginia Right!, October 28, 2011
St. Luke Community Clinic chief willing to try something new
By Joe Beck
Northern Virginia Daily, September 14, 2011
Soylent Greenbacks: David Brooks Wants Some People to Die for Debt Reduction
By James Ridgeway
Unsilent Generation, July 15, 2011
Supervisors approve office building for UVA health system
By Sean Tubbs
Charlottesville Tomorrow, July 14, 2011
Kaine celebrates Medicare anniversary, offers criticism of Ryan plan
By Wesley P. Hester
Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 1, 2011
Weekly Challenge
The 14th annual Remote Area Medical Health Expedition at the Wise County fairgrounds took place in July. The event, which so disturbed a high-level health insurance executive in 2007 that he quit his job to advocate full-time for single-payer health care, provided free medical, dental, and vision services to some 3000 people over three days on a first-come-first-served no-questions-asked basis.
While politicians in attendance approved the generosity and gratitude that they observed, they failed to acknowledge that these are aspects of a national health care system that Canadians and others frequently cite in defense of theirs.
Instead of counting on the generosity of volunteers and the gratitude of those with no other health care options, we must continue to speak out for a health care system that recognizes the generosity of Americans -- a trait so often praised by visitors to our country -- and their gratitude for programs such as Medicare that provide care by right rather than ability to pay.
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