You can bet the war criminal with the bad ticker is getting quality health care today — but the rest of us aren’t so lucky. People without health insurance often need to rely on free clinics like Ferncare in, duh, Ferndale. There’s a music and art benefit for the facility this weekend at the Phoenx Cafe in Ferndale, featuring Duende!, Old Empire, the Crooks and a whole slew of local musos and work by fine artists. Drop by if you can…or donate a few bucks even if you can’t attend. It’s a very worthy cause. Someday, future generations will look back at a society that allowed evil corporations to obscenely profit on people’s illness, pain and suffering with the same kind of disgust we now have when looking back at a society that allowed people to actually own other human beings as personal property.
This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2010.
