Are We A Third World Country When It Comes To Health Care

How many of you have heard of Doctors without Boarders?

But surely we don’t need to have anything like that here in America, the riches nation in the world!

No insurance required for many grateful smiles
Republican-American
BY Quannah Leonard
April 17, 2011

WATERBURY-- People arrived as early as 6 p.m. Friday to secure a spot on the first day of a massive, two-day free dental clinic at Wilby High School. They stayed overnight in cars, and by 5:30 a.m. Saturday, a line of 300 people deep extended from the entrance of the school, waiting for the doors to open at 6 a.m.

Evidently we do.

In the Hartford Courant…

Over 2,000 expected to attend free dental clinic
Associated Press
April 15, 2011

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The Connecticut Mission of Mercy was started in 2008 by the Connecticut Foundation for Dental Outreach, the America's Dentists Care Foundation and Connecticut State Dental Association. Fourteen other states participate in similar programs.
[…]
Schreibman said about 95 percent of the patients are adults. Most have not visited a dentist in at least two years, and many have been without dental care for 10 years or more.

Here we are in Connecticut with the headquarters of many large multinational corporations like GE that didn’t pay any federal taxes. Many of people lining up for the dental care work over 40 hours a week at companies that do not offer health or dental insurance. The people here have to line up and wait overnight to get dental care like a third world country. Meanwhile the Republican and Tea Partiers look for ways to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid. Shame!