Health Coverage and the Homeless

Advocates push to include the homeless in Medicaid, By Pam Fessler, August 25, 2009, National Public Radio: “Most homeless people in America are too poor to buy their own health coverage, but many also don’t qualify for Medicaid, the government-run health program for the poor. Medicaid is mainly for people who have children or a disability, and most homeless people are childless adults. So, like 63-year-old Walter Brooks of Baltimore, they make do without insurance coverage…”