34. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs.


November 18, 2013

Policy Brief

A new report by Leighton Ku, Julia Zur, Emily Jones, Peter Shin and Sara Rosenbaum examines the impact of federal and state policy decisions on community health centers and their ability to continue providing primary care to the nation’s poorest residents. The report, “How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs,” estimates that under a worst-case scenario the nation’s health centers would be forced to contract, leaving an estimated 1 million low-income people without access to health care services by 2020.

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