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Maine - Exchanging time for healthcare in the US
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
For more information about health care reform in Maine, see:
http://www.hctalk.com/viewforum.php?f=16