Just
Don't Get Sick
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Subtitle: Access to Health Care in the
Aftermath of Welfare Reform
Authors: Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman
Subject: Public Health / Public Policy
Paper ISBN 0-8135-4091-7
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-4090-9
Pages: 224 pages. 3 figures;19 tables
Series: Critical
Issues in Health and Medicine
Publication Date: September 2007
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Description:
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 vivid
stories recounted here illuminate the critical relationship between
health insurance coverage and the ability to transition from welfare to
work.
About the Author:
Karen Seccombe is a professor at the School of
Community Health at Portland State University.
Kim Hoffman,
Ph.D. is a Senior Research Associate at Oregon Health and Science
University.
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