We all get sick. It shouldn’t be harder for poor people to have access to urgent care centers
“It’s more proof — as if more is needed — of America’s two-tiered health care system, and the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots. And when it comes to access to urgent care centers, Massachusetts health care policy encourages that divide. A holder of commercial health insurance can walk into an urgent care center and seek treatment for whatever ails them. Low-income citizens enrolled in MassHealth managed care plans can’t use urgent care centers unless they get a referral from a primary care doctor.”