The Medical Care Program for Farm Security Administration Borrowers

Abstract

The program under which more than i oo,ooo low-income farm families, borrowers from the Farm Security Administration, are at present obtaining medical care grew out of an economic necessity. It has appeared as an incidental by-product of a depression-born program of farm loans which were made exclusively to families unable to obtain credit from any non-governmental source. It is designed to accommodate a very special economic group only. It is governmental only in that its organization is sponsored and its operations partly financed-through loans to its debtor families to enable participation-by a governmental credit agency which has loaned several hundred million dollars with little security except the character and productive ability of families receiving medical aid under the arrangements. Its background explains much of its organization and method.