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One of the producers from Countdown with Keith Olbermann attended a Free Healthcare Clinic over the weekend in New Orleans and wrote a moving essay on what he saw and felt.

"After watching for hours as the patients moved through the clinic, it was hard to believe that I was in America," Stockwell wrote. "Health reform is not about Democrats or Republicans or who can score political points for the next election, it's about people."

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