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Community Health Care Centers Benefit From Stimulus
Two billion dollars in federal stimulus funds have been set aside for nearly 1,200
community health care centers around the country that treat mostly poor and uninsured
patients. Betty Ann Bowser reports on how the influx of money has affected some
of the centers.
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Quick Facts about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009
by Keith Drayer, Vice-President, Henry Schein Financial Services
The Bill, $789 billion, includes federal tax cuts, expansion of unemployment benefits
and other social welfare provisions, and domestic spending in education, health
care, and infrastructure, including the energy sector. There are nearly $275 billion
in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in investments with accountability
measures built in. Highlights for healthcare practitioners and their practices are:
- $20 billion for health information technology (to modernize health information technology
systems), to prevent medical mistakes, provide better care to patients and introduce
cost-saving efficiencies.
- $4 billion to provide for preventative care and to evaluate the most effective healthcare
treatments.
- $43 billion for increased unemployment benefits and job training.
- $39 billion to support those who lose their jobs by helping them to pay the cost
of keeping their employer provided healthcare under COBRA and providing short-term
options to be covered by Medicaid.
- $70 billion of Alternative Minimum Tax relief.
- $1.5 billion for community health centers; $420 million to combat avian flu; $335
million for programs that combat AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis.
- $87 billion to help states with Medicaid.
- $3.75 billion for new construction of hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers
at Department of Defense Facilities, and $455 million in renovations to provide
state-of-the-art medical care to service members and their families.
- Veterans Medical Facilities: $950 million for veterans’ medical facilities (in needed
repairs, including energy efficiency projects, at its 153 medical facilities)
- Prevention and Wellness Fund: $3 billion to fight preventable chronic diseases and
infectious diseases. This includes hospital infection prevention, Preventive Health
and Health Services Block Grants for state and local public health departments,
immunization programs, and evidence-based disease prevention.
- Healthcare Effectiveness Research: $1.1 billion for Healthcare Research and Quality
programs to compare the effectiveness of different medical treatments funded by
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP.
- Training Primary Care Providers: $600 million to address shortages and prepare our
country for universal healthcare by training primary healthcare providers including
doctors, dentists, and nurses as well as helping pay medical school expenses for
students who agree to practice in underserved communities through the National Health
Service Corps.
- Indian Health Service Facilities: $550 million to modernize aging hospitals and
health clinics and make healthcare technology upgrades to improve healthcare for
underserved rural populations.
- Unemployment Insurance Benefits Extension: $27 billion to continue the current extended
unemployment benefits program - through December 31, 2009 given rising unemployment.
- Increased Benefits: $9 billion to increase the current average unemployment insurance.
Medicare and Medicaid Regulations: The bill extends the moratorium on Medicaid and
Medicare regulations.