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The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from receiving federal aid.

Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions.

Representative of poor communities nationwide, the vi

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Any consideration of health reform should start with this cautionary tale. -- Jeffery Levi, Ph.D. * Executive Director, Trust for America's Health *

Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Just Dont Get Sick Access to Health Care in the

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      Publisher Rutgers University Press
      Published 8/20/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780813540917
      978-0813540917
      ISBN-10 0813540917
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      Public health and preventive medicine Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from receiving federal aid.

      Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions.

      Representative of poor communities nationwide, the vi

      Trade Review
      Any consideration of health reform should start with this cautionary tale. -- Jeffery Levi, Ph.D. * Executive Director, Trust for America's Health *

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures and Tables
      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1
      Chapter 2
      Chapter 3
      Chapter 4
      Chapter 5
      Chapter 6
      Chapter 7

      Appendix
      Bibliography
      Index

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