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blog:A GLIMPSE INTO THE PROBLEM
August 17th, 2009 Posted 7:41 am
Its organizers, including founder Stan Brock, have steered clear of the healthcare battle in Washington, which centers on Obama’s pledge to provide for the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans and charges by conservatives that he will only make the situation worse by “socializing” medicine.Brock said he started RAM, which is best-known for its work in Third World countries, to provide healthcare in remote parts of the world where people have no access to doctors and medical supplies.His mobile clinics are not seen as a solution to America’s complex healthcare issues but the turnout in Inglewood has offered a glimpse into the depth of the problem.Obama’s political allies, who have seen his fellow Democrats confronted by angry constituents at “town hall” meetings, seized on the RAM event as an opportunity to plug the president’s $1 trillion plan.”There are a lot of town halls going on across America but you know, I’m going to have another story to tell when I get back to Washington, D.C. It will be about what happened here in Inglewood,” Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a Democrat who has pushed hard for Obama’s reforms, told a news conference on the sidelines of the opening day.
