Video: On the frontlines of healthcare

Contributed by Economist Intelligence Unit - Published 19 October 2009

Since the beginning of the global financial crisis, thousands of Americans have lost their jobs — and access to their health insurance.

To find out what that means for those at the frontline of healthcare delivery, we visited one of the three branches of the Manhattan-based Ryan Center, a community health clinic founded on the principles of a former US congressman, William F Ryan: “Healthcare is a right, not a privilege”.…

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