Will Health Centers Go Over the "Funding Cliff "?

COMMUNITY health services; HEALTH care reform; MEDICAID; GOVERNMENT aid; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; PATIENT Protection & Affordable Care Act; HISTORY

The author discusses the importance of health centers which were established as an Office of Economic Opportunity demonstration program in the U.S. He states the enactment of the Public Health Service Act in 1975 to be part of the U.S. health care system, and the importance of the centers to the poorest communities in the U.S.