Making Health Care Choices in Bad Economy
The economic downturn is worse than its entire portfolio.
It hurts people's health.
With many continue to lose jobs, changing jobs, taking pay cuts or being forced to contribute more of their wages toward health insurance benefits, challenges to obtaining health care services health can be difficult for the uninsured or underinsured. It can even be fatal.
Greater Elgin Family Care Center Opens New Community Health Centre McHenry at 8 am today at 3901 Mercy Drive in McHenry.
Local health care agencies are hoping the facility bridges the gap for McHenry County residents who are uninsured, publicly insured or under insured.
“We are thrilled that they (Greater Elgin Family Care Center) are finally here,” said Debra Quackenbush, Community Information Coordinator for McHenry County. “The McHenry County Health Department does not provide primary care services. We are going to work in partnership with the McHenry Community Health Center. Some of our staff — such as our nurses and case managers — will be sent there to help.”
Quackenbush said the county health department will provide the Women and Infant Children services, known as WIC, for the new center. WIC is a federal program meant to aid children, age newborn to five years, with proper health care and development.
The county health department also will offer Family Case Management services for the new McHenry Community Health Center, helping insure women have healthy pregnancies. Much of the case management work involves referring women to services throughout the county, Quackenbush said.
While precise numbers for the demand for county health agency services are not available, Quackenbush said she suspectst most public health agencies have seen an increase.
“It’s really a sign of the times,” Quackenbush said. “It’s unfortunate. It’s just the way the economy affects people’s family life. I suspect that people (who don’t have health insurance) have suffered.
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He now pays for his own private health insurance and his daughter is a BadgerCare Plus recipient. He works part time, he says, because he thinks his daughter deserves to come home from school to her one remaining parent. On Wednesday, he learned that
I will say that, across the state, persons covered by Medicaid have a difficult time finding primary care services. Those people don't have the linkage to a primary care doctor.” How has the economy affected your health care choices?
They said kids should get blood tests done at 12 and 24 months old and all kids are required to be tested before entering day care preschool or kindergarten. For more information on lead poisoning log on to idph.state.il.us.
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Emergency room rule compromises kids' health, equal opportunity ...
You are invited to join with parents and advocates in South King County to speak up for kids and join in a discussion with Washington State Representative Pat Sullivan. Your voice is critical now.
Por favor acompáñenos en una reunión comunitaria de Children's Alliance. Unirse con otros madres y padres, intercesores, promotoras, y miembros de la Alianza para los Ninos para hacerse una voz unida en pro de nuestras niños.
A state rule starting early this month has inspired public debate and a lawsuit making national headlines.
The consequences of this policy will threaten the safety and health of Washington’s Medicaid families. The rule imposes harmful and confusing limits on benefits for care received at the emergency room that could have severe consequences for children covered under Apple Health for Kids.
Parents should be secure in the knowledge that they can seek needed and urgent care for their child, no matter the time of day or night. Instead, this rule, which identifies a list of 700 “non-emergency” conditions , creates confusion for parents and the false impression that the emergency room door is closed to them. No parent should delay needed care for their child because of concern that their insurance will not cover it.
The restrictions imposed on emergency room visit benefits are unfair and unsound ; all kids deserve equal medical attention and don’t always get sick during office hours. This harmful policy will have a worse impact on kids of color, who already suffer poorer health outcomes and more hazards, and make up a large share of Medicaid recipients . While Latino and Black children are more likely to suffer from poor dental health, asthma, lead poisoning, obesity and diabetes, for example, they are less likely to have a usual source of care.
Year by year, regular, quality care paves a path for children to grow into healthy adults. Apple Health for Kids provides more than 700,000 children in our state with the comprehensive care they need day-to-day, whether it’s for a hard fall on the playground, a painful toothache at school, an allergic reaction, or to get a physical to play sports. A health home – a consistent place to get care like a doctor’s or dentist’s office – is the ideal place for children to get routine care. But an emergency room is also an important source for care, should a child suffer a serious burn or need immediate care.