The Washington Times
THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS
Sheets provide privacy in converted horse stalls used as makeshift exam rooms during the Remote Area Medical (RAM) free clinic at the Wise County fairgrounds in Wise, Va., on July 25, 2008. RAM is a nonprofit organization established to provide medical care in third-world countries, but since the cost of health insurance has become so high in the United States, and the need for care so great, over half of RAM's free clinics are now in the U.S. Every year RAM comes here to provide free medical care for close to 3,000 people in one weekend. Most of these people would go without this vital care if it were not for RAM.
