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Community Health Centers: Your Local Lifeline

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Facilities called community health centers or federally qualified healthcare centers. These are partially funded healthcare centers that offer kind of they're tagged as one-stop shops. They offer primary care, usually dental, pharmacy, OBGYn, lab, radiology services all in one place.

Is across one county. And the good thing about these, as I said, they are federally funded.

So, your prescription cost, they have special prescription plans through the government that they're very extremely cheap. If you don't have insurance or if you have traditional Medicare, you're responsible for that 20%.

So, at these federally qualified healthcare centers or at these community healthcare centers, they have what's called a sliding scale. So, your 20% would be based on your income and where you fall on the federal poverty income level that's put out, the new ones put out every year.

Com, hsa. I know this because I worked in these centers for over 10 years and it is an incredible resource. They do so much for all levels of socioeconomic people in the United States and it's a valuable resource for anybody out there. We can help you find one of these healthcare centers if you think that would be a better option for you.

We can get you appointments. We can find out which one in your area may have the best facilities for your need.

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