[EliRivers]

Well then, serious question - not just passive-aggressive snark - why does this happen?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/nov/23/enormous-pop-up...

And other articles too. People inside the USA, travelling ( sometimes for days) to queue (sometimes for days) for a dentist. Why are there organistations in the US whose purpose for existence is to travel around, providing free dental care to any and all comers? Like a medical mission to a country suffering enormous poverty.

[retiredcoder]

I think the cue is at “Virginia is one of 19 states refusing federal dollars to close the healthcare “coverage gap” for people not poor enough for Medicaid, but too poor for anything else.“