title: Access to care: where are the holes in the net? Special concerns for women and children.
abstract: America's health care crisis is a very real and serious problem for our women and children. Poor and uninsured women and children have reached record numbers. These groups find themselves in a particularly grave situation, since there is no "safety net" for them. There is neither health insurance nor money available to cover their routine medical care. In addition, millions of poor women and children do not qualify for government sponsored health insurance such as Medicaid. In many states fewer than 40% of children living in poverty are covered the program. Other public health programs are markedly inadequate and fail to reach many of those in need. American women and children need our action to defend against preventable diseases and death. We can no longer afford to have our children born into poverty, hunger and ill health.
mesh_terms: D000385:Aid to Families with Dependent Children; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics; D008489:Medical Indigency; D011203:Poverty; D011247:Pregnancy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States