Affordable Care Act helps National Health Service Corps Increase Access to Primary Care

by Gary Kopycinski on November 26, 2013

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Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 26, 2013. Over 5 years, the Obama Administration has supported nearly 14,000 health care providers practicing in the communities that need them most.

The National Health Service Corps made more than 4,500 loan repayment and scholarship awards to clinicians and students in fiscal year 2013 thanks to an investment of more than $284 million from the Affordable Care Act. Grants were also made to 32 states to support state loan repayment programs thanks…