National Association of Free Clinics

6 years ago, Hurricane Katrina cut through the American South like a sword made white-​hot with Satanic fire, exposing poisonous indifference and ferocious inequality for the world to witness. During that shameful episode, it was free clinics that treated the sick, the injured, the forgotten, the uninsured.
On this savage anniversary of a natural disaster with unnatural consequences, not much has changed for New Orleans or the rest of the United States. NOLA still struggles to regain her dignity in the face of racist, classist, neo-​liberal, schemes. 50 million Americans remain without health insurance. 72% of the citizenry is saddled with debt due to medical care.
In the wake of yet another hurricane and rising economic disparities, NAFC is a vital resource for the vulnerable, acting as an advocate for the 1,200 free clinics that carry on their mission, the patients those clinics serve, and the volunteers that help to heal the afflicted and dejected. The NAFC also wears its belief that health care is an elemental human right on its chest and crusades on behalf of socialized medicine, either through pushing Congress for more compassionate public policies or by educating everyone from laypeople to pharmaceutical companies on the societal benefits of free clinics.
You probably know people who do not have health coverage, even if you are not privy to their plight. If you have a soul and the means, I shouldn’t have to tell you what to do next.