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U.S. Health Care Gets Boost From Charity, "60 Minutes": Remote Area Medical Finds It's Needed In America To Plug Health Insurance Gap - CBS News
U.S. Health Care Gets Boost From Charity, "60 Minutes": Remote Area Medical Finds It's Needed In America To Plug Health Insurance Gap - CBS News
Recently, 60 Minutes heard about an American relief organization that airdrops doctors and medicine into the jungles of the Amazon. It's called Remote Area Medical, or "RAM" for short.
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, Remote Area Medical sets up emergency clinics where the needs are greatest. But these days, that's not the Amazon. This charity founded to help people who can't reach medical care finds itself throwing America a lifeline.
"We got up at three o’clock this morning and we got here about four. We’ve been out where a little while it's cold," Margaret Walls, a hopeful patient from
Tennessee, told Pelley.
"Why did you come so early?" Pelley asked.
"'Cause we wanted to be seen," Walls replied.
Marty Tankersley came with his wife and his daughter, asleep behind the front seats. Tankersley says he drove some 200 miles to get to the clinic and slept in the parking lot for hours.
"Just to have this done?" Pelley asked.
"Yes, sir. I've been in some very excruciating pain," he replied.
Tankersley had an infected tooth that had been killing him for weeks. Most of the people who filled the lot heard about the clinic on the news or by word of mouth, and they came by the hundreds.
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, Remote Area Medical sets up emergency clinics where the needs are greatest. But these days, that's not the Amazon. This charity founded to help people who can't reach medical care finds itself throwing America a lifeline.
"We got up at three o’clock this morning and we got here about four. We’ve been out where a little while it's cold," Margaret Walls, a hopeful patient from
Tennessee, told Pelley.
"Why did you come so early?" Pelley asked.
"'Cause we wanted to be seen," Walls replied.
Marty Tankersley came with his wife and his daughter, asleep behind the front seats. Tankersley says he drove some 200 miles to get to the clinic and slept in the parking lot for hours.
"Just to have this done?" Pelley asked.
"Yes, sir. I've been in some very excruciating pain," he replied.
Tankersley had an infected tooth that had been killing him for weeks. Most of the people who filled the lot heard about the clinic on the news or by word of mouth, and they came by the hundreds.
