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    Just Don't Get Sick
    Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform

    Karen Seccombe (Author), Kim A. Hoffman (Author)

    9780813540917

    Paperback / softback, published 20 August 2007

    224 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.312 kg

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

    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.

    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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