Idaho is located in the heart of potato country in my State. During certain seasons. primarily summer. Blackfoots population of under 10.000 grows by two or three thousand when migrant farmworkers come to work in the fields. Somewhere along the line. a Federal bureaucrat. sitting at a desk in Seattle. decided that Blackfoot had to have a migrant health clinic. Blackfoot did not want the clinic. Blackfoot did not need the clinic. But Blackfoot got the clinic anyway. It was argued that the towns nine physicians could not adequately serve the migrant community because their office hours were not in the evenings when migrants were not working in the fields. It was argued the clinic should be located where migrants would have easy access to it. All very good reasons. in my judgment. Yet when the clinic opened up. all but 1 day was normal business hours and it was located in town about one block from physicians offices and two blocks from the health department.
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