TAVIS SMILEY | Lining Up for Free Healthcare | PBS

Make sure to catch Tavis' interview with Remote Area Medical founder Stan Brock on Friday, August 21.
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About 8,000 people with little or no health insurance lined up in Los Angeles to receive free healthcare provided by the nonprofit Remote Area Medical.

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http://bit.ly/1ayTxH

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[NolanRogers2]

As a British man I want to say how PATHETIC and Evil you Americans are to do this to your own people.

I read that there are 5 MILLION American children without ANY health care or even access to a bloody doctor.

Does that make you Americans Proud? Does that want to make you get out your ratty ass American Flag and wave is back and forth and sing "God Bless America"? Disgusting!

Yeah....You Yanks are SO PROUD to say how GREAT you are - yeah GREAT at DENYING health care to your own people...



[jlu71]

I volunteered for this event and I can tell you that more than 8000 showed up....but were turned away because we were at capacity.

My first patient told me that he got to the Forum the night before at 10pm and finally got to see me at 1pm the next day. Better advertising needs to be done by RAM to recruit doctors. I found out last minute to volunteer. I'm sure many of my colleagues would have considered it had they known in advance...

[MrBillholden1969]

 These people could do a good job, but they often choose not to. I wen't to them once when I was in need and they treated me badly and did a terrible job. I will do without medical care before I ever go back around them. Thanks for nothing RAM members. Try to remember, we are all just humans.

[jfkjrlover]

@NolanRogers2 I'm not proud BUT I will say that many of those who are poor are Hispanic or black. I'm an Armenian living in the US and seeing how my people come to the US and become productive members of society, I can't help but feel disgust for the blacks and ESPECIALLY the Hispanics who've been here for generations and are just continuing the cycle of poverty by popping babies out as teens & dropping out of school. Why not place blame on them a little for their unfortunate circumstances?

[pegleg09able]

More Americans need to donate to RAM...(especially if you are unable to volunteer.) It goes to a great cause!

[Detoxicsify]

@NolanRogers2 As an American, I also agree with you.

[westsidepride69]

@NolanRogers2 As an American, I agree with you.

[AbjectConformity]

@NO2EUoNO2NWO Why should they?

[NO2EUoNO2NWO]

America STILL does not have free health care? LMAO

[PaulDougouba]

America - why do you think it is A OK to DENY HEALTH CARE to your fellow Citizens and Human Beings?

You are an EVIL bunch of people!!!

USA - Do you realize that the WORLD looks upon you with DISGUST and CONTEMPT when you allow this kind of tragedy to happen to your own people?

USA - Your Rich Politicians and Capitalists who allow this kind of inhuman suffering to come upon poor uninsured men, women and children should be arrested, jailed, put on trial...and then executed for GENOCIDE!

[laughingtiger123]

In Canada, you pay over TWICE the fed tax rate as in America... but you cant see that you are ALREADY paying for your inferior healthcare UP FRONT in fed tax dollars? You can't see that? It requires that you actually think a step or two ahead... like in Chess, a game liberals are just terrible at. Why did lhe last two Canadian Prime Ministers and one of their wives have to come all the way to AMERICA for decent medical treatment? Hmm??? Waiting......