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Obamacare kills rural clinic

 
 
 
The free clinic in my community is also closing as demand has tremendously diminished because of the Affordable Care Act. It was part of the local medical clinic, with no religious affiliation.
 
arkirk said:
You suppose that is evidence that Obama Care is actually working?
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The current Clinic Director, Stacey Bowser, explained there were many mixed emotions involved in the decision but said overall, with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the need is no longer present – the patients that the ministry opened for are now being served.
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If the goal of Obamacare was to insure the lowest levels of the economy had access to quality healthcare, I would call this a win.
 
ksen said:
http://mypulsenews.com/mission-comp...stries-free-medical-clinic-announces-closure/

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Really, are you so sure? Perhaps this is a teachable moment in more ways that one:

The clinic grew rapidly in patients as well as support from other area churches and the community. On June 22, 2008, one decade later from its opening, the ministry moved into the now modern building located on the corner of Ninth Street and Church Avenue. The new building offered a well-organized clinic, featuring examining rooms, pharmacy, private rooms for interviewing new patients, order and distribution of medications, and an organized space for the distribution of personal care items. The clinic shared the front room, which also serves as a waiting for the clinic, and a dining room for the Feeding Ministry.

The original building that first housed Ninth Street Ministries in 1998.
The original building that first housed Ninth Street Ministries in 1998.

The free clinic became a beacon of “help, hope, and love” in its community and its absence will certainly be felt by many as it offered much more than just free medical care and medicines to its patients. It has always been staffed entirely by dedicated volunteers.

Bowser, who has been volunteering since 2009, credits the clinic’s founders, Dr. Lochala, Bill and Katy Plunkett, Erma Mize, and the church for bathing the mission in prayer, as the reason for the large-scale impact the clinic has had on the local community.

Comparing it to successful projects in the mission field, Bowser said there is no need anymore. She said she feels very blessed to have fallen into her position and also explained that she knows she speaks for everyone when she says how greatly they all will miss the patients and the opportunity afforded to them through the church to provide help, hope, and love to those in need.
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Do you see any social downside to be sent to the county urgent care clinic over the kind of human and supportive relationships in social and volunteer organizations? Is it an unalloyed good that community relationships of mutual support be replaced by arms length institutions?
 
Yeah, I don't see anything about the former patients having to go to an urgent care clinic now.
 
ksen said:
Yeah, I don't see anything about the former patients having to go to an urgent care clinic now.
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What about when Obama sends federal agents to shoot the defenceless old people in the county for the sake of increasing the amount of evil in the world? They'll need to go to urgent care then and I'm pretty sure that this is a central tenet of Obamacare.
 
maxparrish said:
Really, are you so sure? Perhaps this is a teachable moment in more ways that one:

Do you see any social downside to be sent to the county urgent care clinic over the kind of human and supportive relationships in social and volunteer organizations? Is it an unalloyed good that community relationships of mutual support be replaced by arms length institutions?
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Yeah... Deny people affordable health insurance so they will be forced to go to volunteer care clinics because only volunteer care clinics ever offer "human and supportive relationships."

Apparently, even before ACA, all hospitals and doctor's offices were staffed with robots... and not even personable ones like R2D2... More like HAL
 
maxparrish said:
Really, are you so sure? Perhaps this is a teachable moment in more ways that one:



Do you see any social downside to be sent to the county urgent care clinic over the kind of human and supportive relationships in social and volunteer organizations? Is it an unalloyed good that community relationships of mutual support be replaced by arms length institutions?
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Why do you assume that a county run clinic provides "arms length" care?
 
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