“There’s so much evidence of the value and the return that health centers bring. The Teaching Health Center program is more recent, but for the National Health Service Corps and the Health Center program specifically, we have decades of evidence of the impact — clinically and economically,” Advocates for Community Health CEO Amanda Pears Kelly told Inside Health Policy on Wednesday (Nov. 20). “And so not only would it be ill-advised to somehow forget all of that, but the human harm that would come as a result of that is pretty massive.”
ACH’s statement on the Paragon Health Institute’s Policy Brief was covered extensively in an interview with Inside Health Policy which was released today.
Additionally, Pears Kelly said, “Ultimately, community health centers, the THCGME, and the NHSC are all programs that have historically garnered bipartisan support–and they should remain that way. That should be the focus — coming together around them, not creating more division on something that is not in question and shouldn’t be.”
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