Narrative excerpt from patient/community member

Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023)

Or could it be that doctors, dentists, they come and they work in a community or in a county where they don’t have knowledge of the people who are here. Could it be that doctors just come to these places without knowing that 90% of the people here can’t afford it? They have an expectation for their clinic, for their practice to make such and such money, but they don’t know, okay, 90% of people or 80% of the people are on state insurance, Medicaid, Medicare.