Poor families in America's health care crisis

Poor families in America's health care crisis /

This draws on extensive ethnographic and survey data from low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio to document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and to reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, and irregular health care that...

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Main Author: Angel, Ronald
Other Authors: Lein, Laura, Henrici, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
Series:Cambridge books online.
Subjects:
Poor > Medical care > United States > Finance.
Poor > Medical care > Government policy > United States.
Medically uninsured persons > Medical care > United States > Finance.
Health insurance > United States > Finance.
Health services accessibility > Economic aspects > United States.
Equality > Health aspects > United States.
Right to health > United States.
Medically uninsured persons.
Poverty.
Health Services Accessibility > economics
Insurance, Health > economics
Poverty
Public Policy
Medically Uninsured
poverty.
United States
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Unrealized Hope of Welfare Reform; 2 The Health Care Welfare State in America; 3 The Tattered Health Care Safety Net for Poor Americans; 4 State Differences in Health Care Policies and Coverage; 5 Work and Health Insurance; 6 Confronting the System; 7 The Nonexistent Safety Net for Parents; 8 Health Care for All Americans; References; Index.

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