Newsweek’s Elija Wolfson discusses the potential impending funding cutoff for community health centers, and how a reduction in funding could severely affect health care access for some of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Citing the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University’s recent report, Wolfson explains that “unless a rarely cited but essential funding provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is renewed in 2015, the community health centers that provide primary care to over 25 million people will be forced to roll back services or, in many cases, shut down completely”. However, if the funding is renewed, community health center capacity could increase all the way to 36.1 million by 2020.
