free clinics
| 5:15PM 7/13/2011
Free clinics and the uninsured are paying a heavy price for the nation's teetering recovery: More than half of the clinics are now time turning away eligible patients -- many for the first time -- according to an AmeriCares report published Wednesday.
| 12:00PM 3/23/2010
Robin Lauderdale traveled to a free clinic last weekend for a general medical checkup. She suffered a stroke a year earlier, and her blood pressure now was running high, she said.
Lauderdale, 43, of Lenoir City, Tenn., cleans houses for a living. Self-employed, she has no health insurance....
| 2:30PM 11/11/2009
The town of Goshen, Indiana was named one of CNNMoney's best places to live in 2008, and the Maple City Health Care Clinic may have played a role in that distinction.
The clinic, a not-for-profit community initiative, has an innovative program that allows the poorest of its patients to pay off...
| 5:00PM 10/21/2009
As the numbers continue to mount, the face of the uninsured gets more and complex now that there are 45.7 million uninsured people in the U.S. The TV talk show host Dr. Oz put a face on the uninsured with a recent episode focusing on the uninsured. He traveled to Houston with the help of 700...