I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.
The Health Center Cluster program helps communities all over the country by providing assistance to health centers and clinics.
There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.
Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.
Hillary Clinton is on record supporting a doubling of community health centers in this country, which will mean that tens of millions of people - poor people - will have access to health care that do not have it today. Is that significant? It is very significant.
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers, although that was Jack Geiger's thing.
Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people.
One of the things I'm proud of at Planned Parenthood is the number of health centers providing trans care, which was largely driven by young activists.
When we talk about inequality in America, the great health centers being able to care for people who don't have means is really important. If you combine the research missions of these academic institutions with great clinical care, you get better clinical outcomes.
