Recent Events Have Made Primary Care More Fragile—Further Challenges Lie Ahead

Editor’s Note

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads.” Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments in health policy under the Trump-Vance Administration and the 119th Congress.

In recent weeks, headlines in various news outlets have highlighted layoffs, clinic closings and other risks to the community health centers that more than 31 million patients, including one in five rural residents, rely on for primary care. By shutting off access to federal grant funding, the Trump Administration created immediate challenges in communities across the country. Even when courts ordered the temporary restoration of funding, the Administration’s actions sparked a run on the system,...

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