Rambling re poverty in America

[calliesue]

Ok so I am just wondering, cause I don't know ; how could people who wanted to, donate services ? To reach people with no net ?

Would it be feasible to get a bus like the blood donor buses and go to poor rural and even urban areas to help people ?

Is there a program already out there that does this? I have no interest in reinventing the wheel. If the wheel exists and isn't broken.

In terms of hunger I would throw my money and effort towards Feed The Children.

Because they help in the Us and abroad You chose where your money goes, and they have a really small administrative overhead. They are not getting rich off of this program. Most of their donations go to food and transportation. But back to topic any ideas about how to help people on a practical level ? Is there something " out there" already that addresses this? Any more Hull House like ideas ?

[forrester]

Ok so I am just wondering, cause I don't know ; how could people who wanted to, donate services ? To reach people with no net ?

Would it be feasible to get a bus like the blood donor buses and go to poor rural and even urban areas to help people ?

Is there a program already out there that does this? I have no interest in reinventing the wheel. If the wheel exists and isn't broken.

In terms of hunger I would throw my money and effort towards Feed The Children.

Because they help in the Us and abroad You chose where your money goes, and they have a really small administrative overhead. They are not getting rich off of this program. Most of their donations go to food and transportation. But back to topic any ideas about how to help people on a practical level ? Is there something " out there" already that addresses this? Any more Hull House like ideas ?

There is more than 40 years of nursing research on how to deliver vital healthcare services to impoverished, poor and rural areas. That's not the problem.

The problem is in getting for-profit systems, which control healthcare, to invest in these services. The "profits" from these alternative delivery services are not enough to generate interest. The benefits are long term, not short term.

In the early 20th century, nursing was very aggressive in setting up these services. The Medical Practice Acts passed during the 1920's cut all this out.

The continued persistence on the part of the AMA to thwart NP practice has continued to block these efforts.