This policy research brief finds that health center expansion to serve an additional 20 million patients as a part of national health reform would result in overall health care savings of $212 billion from 2010 to 2019, including federal Medicaid savings of $59 billion. The report emphasizes that the savings far exceed the $38.8 billion health center investment called for in the July 14 House health reform bill.
The brief was authored by Leighton Ku, Patrick Richard, Avi Dor, Ellen Tan, Peter Shin and Sara Rosenbaum.