Health Care Problems

Health

The health care system started in the mid 1960’s during the civil rights era. The activist work on helping the millions of people living in poverty, they took a program that was place in South Africa and helped there poverty health problems dramatically. Then in the 1960’s President Johnson “declared a war on poverty” the first project to help health care were set up in Boston, Massachusetts and in Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

Then in 1964 the Economic Opportunity Act was passed by congress and this attacked poverty and health care at the roots of the problem. This program started neighborhood clinics and made jobs for the poor people. This program also helped bring down prices at the hospital because people were getting help with their problems before it got to severe. Today the health care system evolved in too many different things, they make homes for the homeless people, they help make awareness for many different kinds of diseases and help the fight agents’ aids.

The Community Health centers are a non-profit, community owned, and local. The health care system now helps with dental and mental problems.

The health care system today helps 15 million people nationwide. Nearly 70% of the people that the health care system helps are below the poverty level which is 15,206 dollars annually. Two thirds of the people that