In 2007, people without insurance cost local hospitals $330 million.
February 25th, 2008On a brilliantly sunny February morning, Valarie McQueen and Nancy Cancel are walking down some of Hallandale Beach’s meanest streets. McQueen knocks on the door of an apartment. The building’s windows are boarded. There’s litter on the ground.
“We’re from Memorial Healthcare System,” McQueen tells the woman opening the door. “Do you have health coverage?” She says yes but that some of her family members do not. McQueen tells her about the hospital’s mobile health bus parked around the corner with doctors, nurses and a pharmacy on board, then gives the woman a phone number to call for more information.
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