Bridging Health Care and Financial Health

While regular check-ups, screenings and preventative care measures are essential for maintaining good physical health, they can often be out of reach for people facing financial difficulties. When things are tight, the most immediate needs — food and housing — usually take priority and, unless the situation is dire, health care can get pushed to the back burner. Health care needs rarely resolve themselves, however. When neglected, they can lead to more severe problems, get more expensive to address and even create permanent, life-altering challenges. As a nonprofit managed care entity, CareSource administers one of the largest Medicaid managed care plans in the U.S. We specialize in offering a variety of health insurance plans, including Medicaid, Medicare and Health Insurance Marketplace products. CareSource is reinventing traditional health care models with next-generation efforts to address social determinants of health in order to foster well-being and drive self-sufficiency for those we serve. Although improvements have been made in health care affordability, it’s too soon to say it’s still not a problem for some. In fact, a 2022 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 64% of uninsured, non-elderly adults said they didn’t have health care coverage because the cost was just...