Health care crisis close to home

The New York Times had an article featuring a clinic in my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The clinic is the only urgent care facility in the northern part of the city, and while it serves a great need in a part of the city with few primary care doctors, it still faces financial collapse and it may not even be helped by provisions in both the Federal stimulus package and the proposed health care reform legislation. The eye-opening feature discusses the real problems patients in lower incomes neighborhoods have accessing care, even when they qualify for state-subsidized insurance. The case of Milwaukee Immediate Care shows that improving access to health insurance is only part of what is needed for real health care reform.