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This is a field hospital, that is set up every year in July.  Doctors and dentist give basic care, free of charge.. to patients that have no insurance.

25.000 people were treated here over one weekend, and the people queued in lines to get checked out. Some had driven over 200 miles to get there.

Now, guess which country and continent this takes place in? Cambodia? Somewhere in Africa? Maybe in a poor south American suburb?

Notice that they are treating people outside, on wet street pavement.

Somewhere in Scandinavia?

USA
Wise, Virginia.

ROMANIA!!!!!

Correct, its in the US. Healthcare on the street for regular people.

Western USA  I see a Lake Powell shirt on the one person and it is my guess.

uhm... Canada?

definitely sweden, roxbury took these photos himself, from the webcam, on his lappy

So your point is America's got a shitty healthcaresituation, the world has known that for years... :S

Australia

hawaii is a country? lol

So your point is America's got a shitty healthcaresituation, the world has known that for years... :S

Actually, my point is that America thinks that it has the best health care in the world.. meanwhile they have 25.000 people showing up to get basic treatment on wet pavement in the street.

America doesn't think it has the best healthcare SYSTEM in the world, we know their are issues, thats why there is talks about reforming it (which will kill it in America, no one will want to be a doctor anymore as pay will drop ridiculously), we DO however, have the best healtcare in the world. Most up to date techniques, best equipment, prestigious school programs, etc.

Guess the country!

@Wolfort

WEll srry to say it but, what does that al matter when you dont have the SYSTEM for everybody to access does prestige1s techniques etc. . America had its golden age, now its imploding slowly. This is just a result of that.

System for everybody? Is it americas fault not everyone can afford it? No. Is it americas fault some people would rather live off of food stamps and government funding, thus raising the taxes for people who work, making some of them unable to afford healthcare? No.

So what, go socialized? So instead of paying 7% of my paycheck for healthcare that is good for me and my family, pay 22% of my paycheck so every lazy motherf*cker can get seen? Hell no. The system may be flawed, but it wouldn't be if people weren't pathetic.

*This is not aimed at ACTUALLY disabled people, they deserve what they get. This IS aimed at pathetic people who claim to be disabled, or just decide to live off the government cheese. It is not my responsibility to care for them.

So Reynolds, get off that horse, and stop saying what you think a sociology techer wants to hear, and face the real facts.

actually not all of them cant afford the health care some are just to big of tight wads to dish out the money and pay for their healthcare so not all of them are to poor to pay for it just the majority are.

If you're going with that Rox, then even the poor ones can get healthcare. Hospitals, as you said, cannot turn them away. They can receive the care, and in the end, it will still be the US taxpayers paying for it. Hospitals get their money one way or another. Trust me on that one.

As for the ones being too poor to afford it, most states offer a healthcare plan, or a card for reduced price care, OR in most areas, a sliding scale, meaning if you don't make more than 16k per year per member in your household, you receive free care. But still, it always comes down to the taxpayers to fund these programs. So, if you cannot afford it, go to school, get a better job. You only live once, I'm going to medschool, you think I can afford 52k a year? No, loans, the end result is worth it though.

"No, loans, the end result is worth it though."

The end result is Lehman Brothers selling teddy-bears to cover their debts. And economical crisis which is worst not in it's causers America, but in small/ developing countries.

This tower got drunk... guess the country

Antarctica!!!

I'm an engineer, it's functional or not, there is nothing known as art! :P

photoshop

no its Italy

Karac, how about a single mom taking care of 3 children who works double shifts at a waitress for a shitty pay, barely enough to pay the rent, with no education? How the fuck is she going to help herself? She can't go to school and study something, she can't get any loans, wtf is she supposed to do when one of her kids gets sick?