Health Front

Rocketing toward the eleventy-hundred post.  Meanwhile:  Anna van Z at Mills River Progressive on a "free, all-day medical and vision care clinic."

What's interesting to me about this is the fact it happened in a conservative city in a very conservative state. One that has seen a majority of taxpayers opposed to "Obama Care" and anything resembling government-assisted healthcare. But it's also a region hard-hit by unemployment, and record numbers of people have been forced to seek help - a subject that the local media seem determined to downplay.
No local t.v. channel I saw offered any interpretation about what such a massive turnout for the free health care help might mean, or discuss any of the problems inherent with a system in which millions have no access to care because they lack the money and coverage required in our for-profit corporate medical system.
I wonder what conservatives tell themselves when they see such scenes. And those other folks ranting about "death panels" when in reality thousands of Americans die every year from lack of health care. Millions of people are already subjected to (corporate) death panels - they're called insurance companies. And they thrive primarily through denying care and coverage to people who need it. Care for children, babies, men and women. Any color, gender, or disease - they actively seek to deny claims and care across the board. This is how they operate - because they are for-profit corporations; your loss is their gain.