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10 pages in length. A contemplative look at the plight of urban poor and their lack of quality health care. In this paper, the writer addresses various aspects that define the problem: inadequate government aid; the trap of low-paying, unskilled, dead end jobs; and how preventive, primary health care is the goal of the immediate future. Bibliography lists 16 comprehensive sources.
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spirals even further down the path of socioeconomic destruction for those caught in the cyclical web of low-paying, unskilled, dead end jobs. As a result, families are unable to arm
themselves with insurance against the ever present threat of illness. "We protect dogs, cats and plants in this country, but not human beings" (Norwood PG).
In 1991, the amount of income spent on average health care expenses was 11.7 percent (AAP Dept. of Government Liaison), which is no small amount for a family
already struggling to make ends meet. "One of the hardest things to obtain when you dont have money is health care" (Van Vleet PG); there is no denying that
poverty and ill-health are interconnected (World Health Report PG). I. What is Poverty To understand the hardship of health care placed upon
the poverty-stricken, it is important to first define poverty itself. Poverty is "a state in which one is unable to obtain basic necessities required to sustain a minimally adequate
standard of living" (McDowell PG). In the 1960s, federal agencies used the average cost of food to establish the difference between the impoverished and everyone else (Martinez PG).
This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Northeast or the rural West (PG).
Not surprisingly, many people did not look upon this as being quite fair. A person in Connecticut could be making more money than someone in Mississippi "but still
be effectively living in poverty because of the higher cost of living" (Lieberman PG). Statistics show the poverty rate was virtually unchanged from 1995 to 1996; however, the 13
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