Health Centers Will Save Billions Under Health Care Reform Act

AAFP News Now reporter James Arvantes highlights the findings from a recently released report on health centers in his latest article.  Arvantes notes, "The recently enacted health care reform legislation provides an additional $11 billion in funding for community health centers, or CHCs, during the next five years, and, according to a new research brief, this will enable CHCs to double the number of people they serve by 2015. The cumulative effect should produce at least $180 billion in system-wide health care savings by 2019, say the brief's authors."  

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