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Obamacare enrollees are straining the finances of community health centers around the country, some health center leaders say. The issue is that many lower-income patients with insurance coverage through the federal and state exchanges bought bronze-tier plans with lower premiums but high deductibles, coinsurance and copayments and no federal cost-sharing subsidies. When these patients face high out-of-pocket costs for care that falls below the deductible, they can't afford it. So the centers are subsidizing that care by offering them means-tested sliding-scale fees. When the centers, which are not allowed to turn away patients for inability to pay, try to get...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12,2014 Contact: ONC Media Relations 202-260-6342 HHS awards more than $295 million in Affordable Care Act funds to increase access to primary care at health centers Funding creates an estimated 4,750 new jobs; Helps newly insured access careHealth and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 1,195 health centers in every U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin to expand primary care services.Today’s awards enable  health centers to increase access to comprehensive primary health care services by hiring...

(CNSNews.com) – One day after President Obama announced his jobs plan to a joint session of Congress, the Health and Human Services Department announced it has $700 million to spend on building, expanding, and improving community health centers across the U.S. The grant money for construction projects, authorized by the Affordable Care Act, will create “thousands of jobs nationwide,” HHS said. The funding also will expand the infrastructure for Obamacare, the law that injects government mandates into the health insurance market. “For many Americans, community health centers are the major source of care that ranges from prevention to treatment,” said...

New projections from the federal Cen ters for Medicare and Medicaid paint a stark picture of the impact of the ObamaCare law: We're in for a massive redistribution of health resources. When the projections were released this month, news reports stressed that the president's "reform" utterly fails to slow the growth of health-care spending. Every year through 2019, employers and consumers will face higher premiums than if the law hadn't passed. But worse news is how radically the Obama law spreads the health wealth around. In 2014, a staggering 85.2 million people -- 31 percent of all nonelderly Americans --...

Obama Plan Ups Abortion Funding Via Community Health Centers Washington, DC -- The initial analysis of the new health care plan President Barack Obama released finds it does nothing to stop the massive abortion funding under the Senate health care bill. Now, a leading pro-life group has released additional research showing the Obama plan actually increases abortion funding. http://www.lifenews.com/nat6032.html

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/02/Sebelius-at-HHS/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm Sebelius at HHS Overhauling our health care system is going to take the will to fight entrenched special interests and lobbyists, the patience to work across party lines, and a little Kansas common sense. "Kathleen Sebelius has a remarkable intellect, unquestioned integrity, and the kind of pragmatic wisdom you’ll tend to find in a Kansan," President Obama said as he announced the Kansas Governor as his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. "I know she...

...When the president released his Fiscal 2005 Budget in February calling for a disciplined budget, some politicians and pundits dismissed it as "dead on arrival." They warned that its spending limits could not be met or would require devastating reductions in key priorities. They were wrong. To the credit of key leaders, the Congress stayed within budget limits and met key priorities. While the appropriations bills are not perfect, they honor the goals President Bush set last February: overall discretionary spending in Fiscal 2005 will rise only 4%, the same as the average increase in American family income. The budget...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryOctober 26, 2002 Radio Address by the President to the Nation      Audio THE PRESIDENT: America's health care system has advantages no other nation can match, but also challenges we cannot ignore. The quality of American medicine is excellent, yet too many Americans live in communities lacking good clinics and basic health care; others are forced to wait for new medical devices that are delayed in an overburdened approval process. And the high cost of prescription drugs is placing a heavy financial burden on many Americans, especially our seniors. This week, we are taking steps...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) --  County supervisors voted to close 11 of 18 public health clinics and eliminate 5,000 jobs in what could become the largest cuts ever made to Los Angeles County's health care system.</p> <p>Wednesday's vote came a week after county Health Director Dr. Thomas Garthwaite recommended shuttering the health clinics to help the county pull itself out of a $800 million deficit.</p>