Sanders lays foundation for a National Health Service in Senate Bill

[Teaser]

it's just a foundation, mind you. But nice.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/22/818060/-This-HCR-Bill:-45,000,000-Get-Single-Payer-Vermont-Health-Care

-- 14,000 nationwide Community Health Clinics

-- Expand CHC capabilities to match VHA

-- 45,000,000 people served

-- $$$$$ to attract 20,000 primary care physicians, nurses, etc.

-- Drugs at VHA prices

-- Dental care

-- Patient billing scaled to income

And no, I will not explain the DKOS diary if you can't make sense of it. The last thing I want is progressives having orgasms again and waking up Joe "if liberals like it I filibuster it" Lieberman from his somnolence. Probably I shouldn't even have posted this. But perhaps we can restrain ourselves.

[Teaser]

1. I'll give it a bump once in a while

so people see it. Maybe some of us will be calmed by this.

[GrantDem]

2. Where does one go to find one of these clinics?

Is there a website to local the nearest one?

[rollingrock]

9. Here's the website/locator

http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/

Federally-funded health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford, based on your income. Health centers provide

1. checkups when you're well
2. treatment when you're sick
3. complete care when you're pregnant
4. immunizations and checkups for your children
5. dental care and prescription drugs for your family
6. mental health and substance abuse care if you need it

Health centers are in most cities and many rural areas. Type in your address and click the 'Find Health Centers' button to find health centers near you.

[GrantDem]

16. Thank you so much.

I know several people that can use this.

[roguevalley]

3. he's an awesome man, bernie sanders.

[Teaser]

4. no debate there.

.

[donheld]

5. I love Bernie

[Cha]

6. Bernie's a great guy..no grandstanding..

he really wants the best for peeps.

[burning rain]

13. Careful...

If his provision is wiped out in conference at the behest of the White House, you'll have to pivot 180 degrees and claim that wiping it out was the right thing to do--and that would be a painfully wrenching pivot!

[DrToast]

7. We better pretend to hate this so Lieberman doesn't insist it gets pulled out.

[rollingrock]

8. So why would you need private health insurance?

if you can get your healthcare at one of these great very low-cost or free health community centers? does that mean the insurance mandate is dead?

that is, if this community health thing doesn't get killed in committee like everything else.

[eridani]

10. This does NOT need to be tied to shitty MANDATES n/t

[boppers]

11. It's been around for a while, good to see it expanding.

NHCS has been going since 1972.

http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/

Want to be a doctor? Sign up, they'll help you with your tuition, in trade for two or four years of work.

[Hekate]

12. Shhh. Don't tell anybody.

But you're making me happy.

Just out of curiosity I clicked the link and found that there are 11 clinics (including dental) within 12 miles of me.
http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/

Hekate

[Teaser]

14. bump for interest

.

[WI_DEM]

15. Obama has been a big advocate for these clinics as well.