Community Approaches to Providing Care for the Uninsured.

Faced with rising uninsurance rates and little response at state or federal levels in recent years, communities have developed many different types of strategies to provide care for uninsured persons. This article profiles local strategies in the Community Tracking Study sites, focusing on efforts that go beyond traditional safety net access. The findings suggest that more recent community efforts, which tend to be privately sponsored, are relatively modest in scope compared to more mature programs with public financing. While local strategies can fill some holes, communities often do not have the necessary resources to fully address the problem.