Worth Noting
Int'l Aid Group Provides Medical Care to Los Angelinos (we're not kidding)
August 14, 2009. Los Angeles-- As debates over health care reform are hijacked by those spreading unfounded fear and hate, an international aid group quietly provided free medical attention to the indigent this week. In Los Angeles.
Remote Area Medical (RAM), a Tennessee-based organization initially facilitated the medical needs of those living in the far reaches of Third World countries and territories such as East Africa, Nepal and Guyana. In the last few years, however, it has also launched free clinics in American regions such as Appalachia.
This week, RAM generated one of its "expeditions" to the Los Angeles Forum and, according to the
Daily Breeze, treated patients came from such exotic locales as Santa Monica and Mar Vista.
While other patients heralded from Inglewood, some drove in from San Diego and Santa Barbara waiting for hours to receive medical attention they could not afford from another provider.
Follow RAM's Los Angeles trip:
http://twitter.com/RAMLosAngeles
Daily Breeze story at:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_13038443?source=rv
Whole Foods CEO Pans Health Care Reform
In the meantime, John Mackey, the CEO of popular Venice grocery store and restaurant Whole Foods, penned a WSJ editorial against health care reform.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
Consider the Source
Longtime local and friend-of-paper Denise Stewart pointed out to us that Mackey was the same Whole Foods executive who posted
anonymous messages in online chat rooms heralding Whole Foods while trashing its competition--Wild Oats.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1133440820070712
