Once the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and health insurance mandate take effect, millions of newly insured Americans will go off eagerly in search of the health care they have not had reasonable access to in years.

But where will they go?  Who will care for them?

While doctors and hospitals and insurers are already planning for the coming onslaught of new patients, one possible way to care for so many new people is to create more community health centers.  Developing such facilities is a challenge, though – especially financing construction.  The November/December edition of the Washington Monthly suggests an interesting new approach to financing new community health clinics in the age of health care reform.  Read about it here.

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