I Need a Million Dollars
To open a private walk-in clinic, I estimate that $1,000,000 should be enough to get us going. The comercial property I want to buy in Nashville is $715,000; the rest should be enough to equip the place for day 1. I could really use some big donors to keep it going, though. Maybe I should explain what I'm talking about ... My dream for not too long has been to open a clinic for the poor and underserved. It has developed to wanting an on-site clinic in Nashville, with a mobile clinic to go out east to Appalachia. This is partly something my brother has suggested, and also stems from my (extreme) dissatisfaction with the way the American healthcare system is run, from a nurse's point of view. I want a clinic like the old medical offices: patient comes in, sees the doctor, gets treatment, and pays the doctor. The End. No insurance, no billing codes, no Medicare. Doctors could charge what they would. Doctors like St. Giuseppe Moscati could charge nothing to those who could not a