Affordable Care Act: Filling the Gaps for Farmworkers and Their Families

While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to expand health coverage to millions of individuals, increase benefits and lower costs for consumers, provide new funding for public health and prevention, bolster health care and public health workforce and infrastructure, and foster innovation and quality in the health care system, millions of others, who are in high need and high risk situations, will not benefit from this historic reform to the nation's health law. This presentation will review the realities of these “remaining uninsured” in farmworker communities, and present the challenges of providing access to primary care and preventive health care services for undocumented persons.