uninsured. more than five working adults are colleagues, who are dying each week because of no access to health care. i am the founder of volunteers in medicine southern nevada, a free clinic, which has been set up to help our sick and dying. there are hundreds of caring nevadans that have rallied like a core of angels to come and provide free health care for their struggling neighbors. housekeepers, operators, receptionists, eligibility workers, social workers, nurses, doctors. in your health reform bill, you have a provision to protect the federally funded subsidized community clinics. it is not clear if they re going to cover the free clinics where volunteers throughout the community have rallied to give support to their struggling neighbors in their great time of need. can you help us with that?
that s one strategy. i m not sure it s going to work. that argument seems to be pretty well settled with the american public at this point. as the president tries to warm up the crowd we re told 70% of the people were open admission, first come, first serve, 30% were reserved for party leaders, friends and political leaders. let s listen to the first question. thank you, president obama. in nevada what s your name? my name is florence jamison. how are you, florence? i m terrific. great. in nevada, we have the second highest number of medically uninsured, about 325,000 uninsured. more than five working adults are colleagues who are dying each week because of no access to health care. i am the founder of volunteers in medicine southern nevada, a free clinic which has been set up to help our sick and dying. there are hundreds of caring