Orthodox health center opens in Pittsburgh

(GOARCH) - Despite the efforts of many policy experts and legislators, universal health coverage for all Americans, 16% of the population make - 45 million people - still no Medicare, a number that is higher than in 2008, according to a recent in 2014 Gallup poll. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has tightened the many reasons why people are not covered and 2% of the U.S. workforce, more than 3 million people lost their employer-sponsored coverage through lagoons and other consequences of the law, the net income of the law in question.

But this blog is not written to explain why the ACA is or is not successful. Instead, it is written to show how the Orthodox Christians react to a problem in the United States, the omnipresent for decades and is much further without end in sight.

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, FOCUS North America has recently announced the first Orthodox center for comprehensive health care in America. FOCUS Pittsburgh Health Center is free of uninsured and gives them access to the physical and mental health and the quality of pharmaceutical and laboratory services to provide. In addition, the central focus of health is a place called orthodox doctors can get their talents for the glory of God and the service of here in America in need.

FOCUS North America is a Christian non-profit organization in the Orthodox faith, which established a sustainable and permanent employment offers housing solutions for poor families homeless and working in America. Operations and activities focus on 50 cities in the United States and Canada.

Why APPROACH expand services in health care? Since there is not much to get someone a job or a place to live if you do not give healthy enough they are to be maintained. It is very difficult to make the transition to a sustainable way of a person or a lack of family homes, poverty and addiction to a life of self-sufficiency, without your health. The provision of free medical care and comprehensive health care services is a natural complement to FOCUS 'work to transform the lives of homeless and working poor in America ...

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