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Over the past five months, reporter Jordan Gass-Pooré spent many hours talking with American farmers to better understand the ways America’s health care system impacts small farms across the country—and how the system might be improved. Gass-Pooré decided to compare the system to Germany, another high-income country with an advanced agricultural sector.
Gass-Pooré found that the German health care system allowed farmers the economic, and emotional, flexibility to cope with the fluctuations of a changing climate in ways the United States struggles to.
“It would be great if there were ways to farm that didn’t require an insane amount of personal sacrifice,” said Robin Ellis, a farmer in New York’s Hudson Valley who also works part-time to get health insurance. “That may or may not be possible, but I think stable health insurance is one thing that we could do to take the edge off of how hard it is to be a farmer. I personally say the solution for farmer health care is a solution for everybody’s health care.”
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