CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Emily Little worked as an emergency room nurse before taking a position at the Charlottesville Free Clinic about three years ago. During a roundtable discussion about the clinic’s work and about national healthcare issues, Little told Sen. Tim Kaine what she’s found in her new job is, “a model for what all of healthcare could be.”
“This is what it could look like if we had universal care,” Little said. “It’s possible. We have a nursing shortage and also a physician shortage because they’re not doing the kind of stuff they used to be able to do. But we’re doing it here. It’s possible.”
During the hour-long conversation, Kaine heard from executives and staff at the clinic, as well the executive directors of the free clinics in Orange and Greene County…