A county's response to the uninsured.
The need for primary care for the uninsured in Florida's Hillsborough County spurred the County Commission to tackle the issue locally. It appointed a Health Care Advisory Board to create a new means of providing primary care services that would be easily accessible to people who are uninsured and have incomes below the federal poverty line. The Board established a system to provide primary health care and enacted a local sales tax to pay for it.
Levin
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PJ
College of Public Health, University of South Florida.
Busansky
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PH
Kalashian
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