Health Care For Low Income Families

Number of Pages 3

3 pages in length. The vicious cycle that keeps low income families from attaining adequate - and oftentimes any - health care is both grand and far-reaching; low-end jobs may not offer employee benefits, and having the wage earner foot the cost of insurance premiums is entirely out of the question when getting food on the table is a struggle. To get a better paying job requires better skills and, in many cases, the ability to read and write. As such, a most viable long-term approach for attaining health care is to empower low income, low literate individuals the opportunity to learn the basic skills necessary for self-improvement so they can land a job with insurance benefits. In the short-term, however, these individuals must also be educated as to preventive strategies for keeping themselves healthy so they do not cause the need for avoidable medical issues, especially when they have such potentially life-threatening conditions as diabetes. Because the "system" does not make it an easy process to attain health care for low income families, they have to learn to keep themselves healthy in order to decrease the need for inaccessible insurance. Bibliography lists 5 sources.


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