The core issue with health care is that these women are going to lose eligibility for any health insurance. The second issue with health care is that because we didn't do a national program, we're seeing lots of little programs that are a combination of state and federal efforts and are very inefficient. There is a program in Texas that does well child checks and innoculations but it doesn't do illness visits. And if you can go to one of these programs and you need transportation, there is a different program that can help you with transportation. But the transportation is linked to the child's eligibility, so if you have a well child and a sick child and they both had to go to the doctor, you couldn t use the same transportation program to take both children to the doctor.
Life gets really complicated.
It's a full-time job just managing these programs. The other issue is education and childcare. People are most likely to give up on their education if they can't get their children supervision. They may go out to work and leave their children unsupervised, but they won't do the kinds of activities that give them the chance of advancement if it means increased numbers of hours for their children who need supervision. My idea is that all these piecemeal programs are, in the end, stupid and inefficient.