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Federally-funded community health centers (CHCs) are a significant part of the safety net. They provide care to low-income Americans, most of whom either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid. The G.W. Bush Administration expanded CHCs dramatically, and the Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama does so even further, to the point they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘health care quality’
April 12th, 2012
Category: Health Care
To bring market forces to bear on health care improvement, one needs service consumers who (a) Can detect quality (b) Are aware of what they are paying and (c) Have choices between providers. These three things are rarely true of the people who receive services from public sector addiction treatment programmes. One way to handle [...]