Hillsborough County Health Care Plan |
Hillsborough County provides residents living at or below the poverty level access to health care. Our award-winning program, the Hillsborough Health Care Plan (HCHCP) also known as Hillsborough HealthCare, actually is making it happen by ensuring that all Hillsborough County residents have access to quality medical care.
When most of us feel an illness coming on, we simply visit our primary care physician, or stop by a walk-in clinic. Unfortunately, there are many county residents who don’t have that option. Most working poor do not have the means to pay for health insurance and can't afford to seek health care until their medical problems become too severe to ignore. Often that means a trip to the emergency room and sometimes a hospital stay.
In many cases, the illnesses that send uninsured people to the emergency room are preventable. But with no means to pay for a doctor for routine check-ups, their illness becomes an emergency. That's exactly the situation that Hillsborough HealthCare is working to change. |
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