President Obama's Stimulus Plan $$$ Is Keeping Not-For-Profit Clinics Open To Care For The Uninsured

[ClarkUSA]

This hopeful scenario has been played out in every state as strapped not-for-profit medical clinics serving poor areas get a new lease
on life: The Nanjemoy Community Center clinic in Maryland was scheduled to close, leaving uninsured residents without health care options but the stimulus package provided money to stay open.

In one of the world's most advanced medical systems and one of America's wealthiest states, Foerter and her clinic are a lifeline for hundreds of poor and working-class residents of Nanjemoy, an isolated peninsula in rural southwestern Charles County. Dozens of people here live without running water, some in unheated trailers or shacks, just 37 miles from Washington. There is no grocery store and no gas station, no Laundromat or restaurant.

This spring, Foerter told them that the clinic's services almost certainly would be ending in the next few months. The recession has hit nonprofit health clinics hard. This one had lost $150,000 during each of the past 14 years, and other grants were drying up. The board of Greater Baden Medical Services, which runs the clinic tucked inside the Nanjemoy Community Center, decided it no longer could be sustained and voted to close it.

And then, just as some patients had given up on the idea of affordable medical care within their reach, they received word of a small miracle: Two weeks ago, the federal government announced that all but a handful of the nation's health clinics would receive a total of $2 billion through the federal stimulus package. Greater Baden was awarded $270,372, enough to keep Nanjemoy Health Services open for two years.

"The fact that someone stepped in and did something about the crisis that this was going to cause is reason for celebration," said Rick Campbell, a longtime patient who has multiple sclerosis... for the clinic's 750 patients, there is simply nowhere else to go.

Thank you, President Obama, for looking out for the little guy.

[babylonsister]

1. Yay! Thanks for posting. I'm glad to see that stim money being

used this way, to help people. Very encouraging!

[Christian30]

2. This is excellent news!

n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. K&R This is the kind of thing that matters.

Thanks, Pres. O.! :)

(And I dare anyone to call this "pork".)

[Zenlitened]

4. K&R. Help where it's needed -- THAT'S the way!

:applause:

[countingbluecars]

5. Great news!

Help for the little guy.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. This is certainly good news .... commendable ...... but I have a 'but' .......

.... but why are these 750 patients not entitled to health care on a par with those who have a greater ability to pay for it?

I think its terrific that the stimbux went their way. But consider ...... weren't stimbux intended to stimulate the economy ....... create jobs ...... get people spending again ...... that sort of thing? How does keeping a remote medical clinic catering to the forgotten poor stimulate the economy? We can all construct a tortured answer to that, but we would all be full of shit. All this does is replace some giving that no longer happened in this crap economy.


Single payer, universal health care would help. It would unburden businesses and keep these people even healthier than they are.

[ClarkUSA]

7. "How does keeping a remote medical clinic catering to the forgotten poor stimulate the economy?"

Because affordable access to ongoing and preventative care helps keep the uninsured on their feet and out of the hospital,
making them able to care for themselves and their families as well as allowing them to work for a paycheck and afterwards,
spend. This type of bottom-up support is exactly the type of help uninsured kids need to keep healthy and up-to-date
with their vaccinations, too. When kids stay healthy, they go to school and their parents don't need to take off work to
care for them and perhaps lose their job. The poor are not forgotten by the Obama administration.

[HopeOverFear]

8. Good answer.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Like I said .... any of us can make .......

.... a tortured case that shows this is stimulating.

[HopeOverFear]

14. No, not a tortured case.....a very valid one.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. Can you define nuance? I ask because you sure are incapable of understanding examples of it.

[rucky]

10. It's a twofer

It keeps a much-needed service open and healthcare workers working.

[DrToast]

11. There are people that work at the clinic

The plan was designed to save or create jobs. I don't understand why you would question stimulus funding for this. This is a textbook example of how the stimulus package is supposed to work.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. What I am questioning is the lack of single payer health care

I said the grant was commendable.

[HopeOverFear]

15. perhaps you should post about that...in a seperate thread

[Stinky The Clown]

17. You decide what you post and I'll decide what I post. I see this as absolutely related

Sorry you can't see it that way.

[rucky]

9. THIS is where I want our money to go!

[mkultra]

16. bu bu but he should be focused on prosecutions.

he can do everything at the same time all at once and such as.
And maps....where are our maps!

[Stinky The Clown]

18. That's a really silly, childish thing to say, you know.

Which is why it isn't surprising.

[mkultra]

22. i know you are but what am i.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. What are you? Let's start with "incapable of nuance"

I have some extra gray if you care to expand your black and white world.

[mkultra]

28. no doubt just the color and not the matter eh?

nuance. lol.

[BlooInBloo]

19. I feel so "suckered".

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Can you define nuance? I ask because you sure are incapable of understanding examples of it.

A repost of another reply ... but seems appropriate.

Or were you just being a funny smartass? If you were, then I am the one incapable reading the nuance. In which case: mea culpa.

[BlooInBloo]

27. lol!

[AtomicKitten]

20. He's keeping the safety nets viable.

:thumbsup:

[Overseas]

21. K&R for keeping medical clinics opened for the growing ranks of our uninsured.

We need more neighborhood clinics for those of us who can't afford huge COBRA payments too.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. No one is arguing against it. You don't do nuance very well, do you?

Keeping the clinic open was, in my first post, termed 'commendable'. Do you know what that means?






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