The rate of unemployment and uninsured patients - New report examines the impact Kaiser

Most families with their insurance contracts, the funds of health insurance by an employer. Thus, if a family member loses his job, the family may also lose their health insurance. For many of these families, COBRA payments are so high, the family will have to choose between food and protection or insurance. Health insurance is losing food and shelter most of the time.

These families were then no public programs and the Community Clinic, skip and care for chronic diseases like diabetes, very elaborate. Or, if possible, accompanying their parents to some dollars for health care for their children and neglecting their own needs.

Squalid conditions for the unemployed are households in these communities. Families, the solid middle class, pay your bills on time, in possession of housing, and had a good handle on their health are now partitioning, ruin your credit do not pay, health problems, lack of medical care and l ' observation, there is no work for them. No task is not to leave the family and financial problems. And for many, not working does not mean health care financed by employers.

Small businesses are also in these areas, to fight, try to open the doors. A St. Petersburg, the owner of a company, windows and mirrors of Commerce and Housing, said: "There is no work. I, for one set of plans to offer once a week, are fine and good size ratio work. Now, I am betting Haven't seen three jobs this year. It' simply does not exist. "
In Santa Rosa, CA, the situation is very different for a winery, the Human Resources Director, "I've been here 21 years and have had ups and downs but it is probably the worst . We have about one third of our employees, and covers all frequencies ...I had two major layoffs, and there are probably bare bones. "

The same small business owner, who offered health insurance to workers, because understanding what is good for the economy, the coverage is now reduced to keep the doors open. Some employers, subsidies for families and workers. Coverage is available to families, but at a cost much higher than ever. Others were the employers in terms of lower premiums.
The growing number of people without insurance is a growing public health problem. Uninsured adults with chronic diseases like diabetes, the urgency to replace the more expensive, when their conditions are already sufficient. Other conditions such as cancer, for example, untreated, the disease at an advanced stage, amounting to more process, if the tumor is still to be addressed and the increasing loss of lives. Communicable diseases are more often that children are not vaccinated because their parents Don't have money.

For the unemployed, the prospects for health care is poor and deteriorating. One possibility could help the situation and the public provision for all, regardless of ability to pay.

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit, private foundation based in Menlo Park, CA, one of the possibilities of communication, better information and analysis on health