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Well then, serious question - not just passive-aggressive snark - why does this happen? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/nov/23/enormous-pop-up-clinic-try

Well then, serious question - not just passive-aggressive snark - why does this happen? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/nov/23/enormous-pop-up-clinic-trying-bridge-americas-health-divide https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/nov/23/enormous-pop-up... And other articles too. People inside the USA, travelling ( sometimes for days) to queue (sometimes for days) for a dentist. Why are there organistations in the US whose purpose for existence is to travel around, providing free dental care to any and all comers? Like a medical mission to a country suffering enormous poverty.

retiredcoder 8y ago
I think the cue is at “Virginia is one of 19 states refusing federal dollars to close the healthcare “coverage gap” for people not poor enough for Medicaid, but too poor for anything else.“
- EliRivers 8y ago
  I am way out of my depth; why would a state refuse that money? What is the cost of accepting it that 19 US states feel is too high? Not demanding this of you specifically; maybe someone, anyone, can answer.
  - marme 8y ago
    the argument they made is the money is temporary. After a few years the federal money goes away and the state has to foot the entire bill so they would rather just refuse the program entirely. This is their public reasoning but the reality is more that it is program proposed by Obama so they just want to refuse it on political principle
  - retiredcoder 8y ago
    As the sibling commenter mentioned, it is a political decision to take federal funds, which sometimes goes against the best interest of the electorate (not claiming to be the case here but seems like so when we read such articles).