. Economic situation facing agriculture and rural America (Secretary Mike Espy) : hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, February 3, 1993. Agriculture -- Economic aspects United States; Farms, Size of -- United States; United States -- Rural conditions. 164. TESTIMONY Of Georgia Healthy Farmers Project for Hearing of House Agriculture committee on "Economic Situation Currently Facing Agriculture and Rural Communities" February 3, 1993 The financial picture of rural communities would be incomplete wit
. Economic situation facing agriculture and rural America (Secretary Mike Espy) : hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, February 3, 1993. Agriculture -- Economic aspects United States; Farms, Size of -- United States; United States -- Rural conditions. 164. TESTIMONY Of Georgia Healthy Farmers Project for Hearing of House Agriculture committee on "Economic Situation Currently Facing Agriculture and Rural Communities" February 3, 1993 The financial picture of rural communities would be incomplete without the acknowledgement of health care costs to rural families, in particular, to farm families. Georgia Healthy Farmers Project found one out of every three farm injuries uninsured (the general population experiences one in seven uninsured). Injury data is an example only of those coerced to seek care. How many farm families lack elective medical care? An educated guess would be, many. The majority of farms in the United states are family owned. This means the independent, small business man, the family farmer, must bare the expense of private health care insurance. In Georgia that can cost from $25o-S750 per month for catastrophic or minimal coverage for a healthy family of four. This cost is a burden for any small business, but add to this the lack of access to care in rural communities and time away from the job due to illness or injury becomes a viable consideration for all rural business owners. Farm wives are the perfect example of a population segment that is denied the benefit of current health care programs. Too much income to qualify for free mammograms, but do not have insurance to cover preventive care. It is a well known fact that the most effeotive cost benefit ratio in occupational medicine is in the arena of preventive care. Unless change occurs, rural populations can anticipate being denied the obvious advantage preventive care contributes to a community, a s
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