Uninsured on the front lines: America’s working poor face a pandemic without any aid

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Uninsured on the front lines: America’s working poor face a pandemic without any aid
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30 million people in the U.S. are living without insurance, and the stress of being hospitalized because of the pandemic is immense.

William Luking, a doctor in rural North Carolina who runs a clinic with his brother about 25 miles north of Greensboro, said he treated one of his regular patients last week who had a dry, hacking cough and trouble breathing. The longtime patient turned scarlet when Luking said he should go to the hospital.

Luking and doctors like him have gone to great lengths to treat their patients and made personal sacrifices because, as he said, “We’re not going to fold up shop now.”

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