Family Budgets And Health Care – Segment With Japera Smith-Stewart
This Kaiser Family Foundation documentary, Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care, profiles several American families who are struggling to make ends meet. In the spring of 2008, 27-year Japera Smith-Stewart, married and a mother to three young children, worked as a temp in San Francisco. During her pregnancies Smith was covered by Medicaid but when she got a job she was shifted into the states Share of Cost program, which has high out-of-pocket expenses. Japera skipped taking her blood pressure medication to make her prescription last longer and she sometimes hesitated before taking her children in for their medical needs because of the cost. After our interview, Smith began working full-time for San Mateo County and has health insurance for the whole family.
Duration : 0:10:59
April 20 2010 12:42 am | Family Health Insurance