Free Clinics Try To Fill Gaps As COVID Sweeps Away Job-Based Insurance | Kaiser Health News

Free Clinics Try To Fill Gaps As COVID Sweeps Away Job-Based Insurance | Kaiser Health News: The volunteer medical providers at the Tree of Life Free Clinic in Tupelo, Mississippi, give crucial health care to the uninsured in the best of times, drawing crowds who line up for hours. Amid the current COVID pandemic, clinic staffers were advised to close. Instead, they chose to adapt — even without critical N95 masks to protect themselves — as the economic crisis intensifies the need for free care.