Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Senate HCR Act of 2009, starting to look good?

10,000 new Community Health Centers:

A $10 billion investment in Community Health Centers, expected to go to $14 billion when Congress completes work on health care reform legislation, was included in a final series of changes to the Senate bill unveiled today. Can you say "When do we break ground on 10,000 new Community Health Centers?".

For all the Doom and Gloom in the liberal blogosphere self avowed Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders is pretty darn happy, after all it seems Bernie just got Vermont style health care for the rest of the nation.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel wrote for The Nation on one important aspect of the Senate bill.
"These non-profit, community-based facilities provide primary health care, dental care, mental health services, and low-cost prescription drugs on a sliding scale," the blog added. "Sanders made sure that a $10 billion increase in funding for the health centers was included."



45 million Customers Served:

The House bill provides $14 billion in funding for the federal health centers and service corps. Sanders says that indications from the White House and Democratic leadership are that there is a "good chance" the final bill will do the same. That would translate to health centers in 10,000 more communities throughout America within 5 years, and increase the number of people served by over 100 percent, to 45 million.

Read Katrina Vanden Heuvel's whole blog here.

2 comments:

area said...

nice to hear some good news!

Roj said...

Well, I picked out the best of the best out of a pile of crud. Bernie does carry some weight with me.