The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that “The enjoyment of the highest attainable level of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social status” (Koh and Nowinski 2010 pp 949). Hopefully, this sentiment also includes low-income women in our society, however it has become a harsh reality among poverty-stricken women that equitable and affordable healthcare is difficult to provide for themselves and their families. Women with incomes below the federal poverty level are at greater risk of being uninsured or underinsured than the general population (Legerski, 2012). The inability to acquire adequate health insurance whether privately offered or state-funded, in particular, can pose a serious barrier to low-income women's ability to seek health care (Magge, 2013). Furthermore, poverty can lead some women to engage in dangerous “street involvement,” causing health care providers to act with unfair biases toward their health care (Bungay, 2013). This article will attempt to further address and justify these general claims regarding low-income women and their relationship to health care. She argues that if we are to treat the highest possible level of health care as a fundamental human right rather than safeguarding the poor women of our society from these trials and tribulations, is it not true that, as a country, we make a concession to the fact that Are low-income women less worthy or these rights? Approximately two-thirds of the uninsured people in our country live in low-income families, approximately 8.5 million of these are uninsured low-income women, thus making up 19% of the population uninsured...... middle of paper ......1-334. doi:10.1080/15544770902901809Koh, H. K., & Nowinski, J. M. (2010, April 2). Health equity and leadership in public health. American Journal of Public Health. pp. S9-S11. doi:10.2105/AfPH2010.191379.Legerski, E. (2012). The cost of instability: The effects of family, job, and welfare changes on the health insurance status of low-income women. Sociological Forum, 27(3), 641-657. doi: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2012.01339.xMagge, H., Cabral, H., Kazis, L., & Sommers, B. (2013). Prevalence and predictors of underinsurance among low-income adults. JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 28(9), 1136-1142. doi:10.1007/s11606-013-2354-zMumtaz, Z., Salway, S., Bhatti, A., & Mclntyre, L. (2014). Address invisibility, inferiority and powerlessness to achieve improvements in maternal health for ultra-poor women. Lancet, 383(9922), 1095-1097. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61646-3