AAN News »
   

For Poor, Health Care Is Painfully Out of Reach

By AAN Staff
april 6, 2004  12:01 pm
For Poor, Health Care Is Painfully Out of Reach
The low-income residents who relied on Wayne County's taxpayer-funded health plan found that medical help was too often not forthcoming. Metro Times news editor Curt Guyette studies the dilemma of patients who were supposed to get service through a health maintenance organization but couldn't find doctors who would treat them. One woman begged doctors for six months to take out the drainage tubes that were supposed to be surgically removed a few days after an emergency kidney operation, but no one would do it until the governor's office intervened.
View full article at Metro Times