"At charity clinics throughout Georgia, patients with no health insurance or who don't qualify for government programs jam telephone lines to obtain an appointment. If the clinic doesn't take appointments, patients line up and wait for hours for a chance to see a doctor, nurse or dentist. In 2008, Georgia's 100-plus charity clinics - including St. Mary's Health center, Community Health Mission and Good Samaritan Clinic in the Savannah area - cared for more than 175,000 patients. This year, some clinics are seeing as much as a 300 percent increase in patients due to the state's record jobless rate..."

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