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Maine - Exchanging time for healthcare in the US

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:56 pm    Post subject: Maine - Exchanging time for healthcare in the US Reply with quote
Maine - Exchanging time for healthcare in the US

As millions of Americans struggle in the worst economic times since the Great Depression, keeping up with rising healthcare costs has become an all-too-common problem.
Low-income residents in the northeastern state of Maine who do not have insurance, however, have found a novel way of getting access to healthcare services: they earn time credits which can be exchanged for time with a doctor by doing yard work or other everyday chores.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2012/01/09/exchanging-time-healthcare-us
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