I am going to the Home Show today to man a booth for the Montgomery County Medical Clinic. This is an organization that has brought low cost health care to Montgomery County in the form of a health clinic for the uninsured or under insured. We need more visibility so I will have a table and hand out brochures at this Home Show where, hopefully, several hundred people..perhaps even thousands of people will pass through. We have purchased a table top presentation system so we can show off our pictures and brochures. We are in the process of applying for Federal assistance for this clinic.
Right now we are operating under a grant from the State of Kansas. The clinic is only open on Thursdays from 3:00 until 9:00 and we have several doctors who volunteer their time to keep it going. Our director is a PhD nurse who volunteers her time there too. I have to admire this woman. She donates hundreds of hours to get this clinic off the ground. As a board member I feel I must do anything I possible can to support her and the program since it is so badly needed. Southeast Kansas is very poverty stricken. Many, many people have no insurance at all and fall between the cracks as far as health care is concerned. I have talked to people who never go to the doctor when they are sick because they simply cannot pay the bill.
What a tragedy in the richest country in the world.
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