Flying Hospitals - USA
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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2008 · News & Politics
September 2008 Why is the healthcare in the worlds richest country so poor? With no national healthcare, many Americans cannot afford private health insurance and are in dire need of voluntary schemes like the flying hospital. The hospitals founder, actor Stan Brock originally set the charity up to help people in remote parts of Latin America. Now 60% of his stops take place in America providing free mammograms, scans and dental treatment. He is helping the systems victims, those who cannot afford steep rises in their insurance premiums after diagnosis. "We began to sell our car, our furniture," says Sandy who needed chemotherapy for leukaemia.
