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This essay discusses what makes up a good community. The main issues addressed are: education, health care, and community involvement. Community involvement is viewed from macro and micro views of local government, business, and private citizens working together to form community. Bibliography lists 1 source. JVgoodcy.rtf
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it as a problem that the United States government gets less involved with these services every year. For example, they want to turn schooling into a voucher system so that
children have options in the schools they attend or home schooling. The problem is there are millions of people who cannot afford a good education, with or without vouchers. When
governments fail to provide, private companies and citizen groups must take charge of the situation and create their own good communities. Today, this is happening at both the state and
local level. Good health care includes well childcare and health care for its adult citizens. Health care should include not only diagnosis and
treatment, but prevention, which can be found in regular checkups, immunizations, and elder care. This means, of course, that the community must be able to draw to it qualified health
care providers, which means that its citizens have jobs and either have health insurance or the ability to pay. Currently, there is high unemployment and hundreds of thousands without health
insurance. The federal government offers well child care block grants to states that qualify for them. It also offers Medicare for elder citizens, so these two groups, at least, can
find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government fails to provide, local communities can take charge. The student
may want to state that this responsibility usually falls to the state, but if the state fails to provide alternatives, as is true in California, local communities can pull together
to implement programs themselves. In L.A. when the state government failed to maintain programs as simple as well child care (Dreier, 2000), local citizen groups stepped in. California may have
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