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June 11, 2008 5:54 PM

Free Clinic Helps People Who Need It Most

Seth Doane is a CBS News correspondent based in New York.
(CBS)
I've wanted to do a story on free clinics for the uninsured since I visited one such clinic this winter in Greenville, Miss., along the Mississippi River Delta. There I found a nurse practitioner who was working as hard as she could to serve a population that had very limited access to medical care. In the few hours that I visited this clinic, we met folks who hadn't seen a doctor in years because they couldn't afford to.

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