MEDIA TOUTING OBAMA'S HEALTH CLINIC PLAN! ER UM... BUSH HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT! AND DONE IT MO' BETTER, TOO!

REUTERS - VIA DRUDGE:

Obama pushes centers as one focus of health reform

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has been vague about details of his healthcare reform efforts, but he provided a hint on Monday of one direction he could take -- community health centers.

As he announced the nominations of his two top health executives, Obama highlighted the allocation of $155 million to 126 community health centers

NYTIMES - 12/26/08:

President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.

For those in poor urban neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the only dependable providers of basic services like prenatal care, childhood immunizations, asthma treatments, cancer screenings and tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

As a crucial component of the health safety net, they are lauded as a cost-effective alternative to hospital emergency rooms, where the uninsured and underinsured often seek care.

THEY CALLED THE BUSH EXPANSION UNPRECEDENTED. THEY WERE RIGHT.

I GUESS THAT MAKES OBAMA'S MODEST INCREASE PRECEDENTED. AND MINSCULE IN COMPARISON.

BUSH WAS BETTER FOR HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR THAN OBAMA.