A single payer health insurance system would put Stan Brock out of business.

Brock is the founder of Remote Area Medical.

Remote Area Medical has set up in Wise, Virginia this weekend.

Providing free medical care to 1,600 people on Friday.

Brock turned away hundreds more this morning.

In an interview with Single Payer Action, Brock said that single payer national health insurance would put him out of business in the USA.

“A single payer system would put us out of business if it includes dentistry and vision care,” Brock said.

But let’s say it were 100 percent coverage?

“Yes, then a single payer system would put us out of business and we’d go back to Haiti, and Guatemala and places where we belong,” Brock said.

By giving free medical care to thousands in Appalachia and around the USA, is Brock sending a political message to the American people?

“Absolutely not,” Brock said. “I certainly would object to even a suggestion of that. We have been doing this for 20 years. That won’t hold water. We have been doing this because it has been a necessity for 20 years.”