Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

by Ronald J. Angel, Laura Lein, Jane Henrici

Book Overview

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521546761
• ISBN13: 9780521546768
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"