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Barriers to Healthcare Persist for Migrant Farm Workers

Author: Bunnell, Glenn
Date Published: 2001


Article that examines the barriers to healthcare for migrant farmworkers. It challenges the question, "Is the current healthcare system able to be fixed to accommodate legal citizens with low income portable health insurance or is the problem too big to fix. Bunnell interviews Bobbi Ryder, CEO of the National Center for Farmworker Health and Tina Castanates, MD with La Clinica del Carino Family Health Care Center on their years of experience in dealing first hand with the barriers that migrant farmworkers have in accessing medical care.

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Number of Pages: 2