U.S. Health Care Gets Boost From 3rd World Charity Called 'Remote Area Medical'

This is a 13 minute news clip I watch last night on CBS 60 minutes titled 'Lifeline'. I was astonished to discover that a charity like 'Remote Area Medical' finds themselves NOW needing to help middle class working Americans with HEALTHCARE, VISION and DENTAL. This is so sad, we are supposed to be the wealthiest nation in the WORLD and now has an organization that normally helps 3rd World nations with Medical care! This is the TRUTH about what our country is facing today and it must be exposed!

This is NOT right at all. The rich are get supremely rich and the middle class are evaporating right before our very eyes. The United States is one of the few nations left in this World that does NOT have Universal Health Care. How progressive does that make us to not care for our very own citizens! All of those BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars WASTED in Iraq, Afghanistan and WASTED saving the banks that are going to go under anyway.

I have included a short transcript of this video below. However, I do recommend that you take the time to watch this video documentary of the crisis our COUNTRY is facing today! You can read the rest at the 60 minutes website click here.

"One of the decisive issues in the Presidential campaign is likely to be health insurance. Texas and Ohio vote on Tuesday and those states ALONE have nearly 7 million un-insuranced residents. Nationwide 47 million have NO health insurance. But that's just the start, because MILLIONS more are under-insured, unable to pay their deductibles or get access to dental care. Recently we heard about an American Relief Organization that air drops doctors and medicine into the jungles of the Amazon, it's called 'Remote Area Medical' or RAM for short.

Remote Area Medical sets up emergency clinics where the needs are greatest. These days that's NOT the Amazon. This charity founded to help people who can't reach medical care NOW finds itself throwing AMERICA a lifeline!

In a matter of hours, Remote Area Medical set up its massive clinic, for a weekend, in an exhibit hall in Knoxville, Tenn. Tools for dentists were laid out by the yard, optometrists prepared to make hundreds of pairs of glasses, general medical doctors set up for whatever might come though the door. Nearly everything is donated, and everyone is a volunteer. The care is free. But no one could say how many patients might show up."