Veritas: A Better Way to Provide Medical Care to the Poor

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Host Pat Crocker speaks with Dr. Alieta Eck on health care issues.

Alieta Eck, MD (New Jersey) graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy and the St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr. John Eck, MD in Piscataway, NJ since 1988. She has been involved in health care reform since residency and is convinced that the government is a poor provider of medical care. She testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress in 2004 about better ways to deliver medical care in the United States. In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a non-government free clinic for the poor and uninsured that currently care for 300-400 patients per month utilizing the donated services of volunteer physicians and nurses. Dr. Eck was the 2012 President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and serves on the board of Christian Care Medi-Share, a faith based medical cost sharing ministry. She is a member of Zarephath Christian Church. She and her husband have five children, one being an ophthalmology resident in St. Louis, MO. She is the 2014 Republican nominee for the US Congress in NJ-12.

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