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[edit] General Description

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Non- profit clinic, - one of the only primary care clinics in the Anchorage bowl that will accept medicare / medicaid patients. The facility saves the state thousands if not millions of dolllars because patients can receive primary care on a sliding scale. That means they don't go to the emergency room for general care which means the state doesn't pay emergency room costs. However, it is currently overcrowded and having a hard time accepting new patients. It is not efficient, and because of lack of room and parking the administrative offices are having to be housed in a separate location. It's just not a great situation. I imagine that the construction of a new clinic would, in the long run, pay the state and federal government back within 10 years from the savings of allowing new medicare/medicaid patients.

[edit] Points Against

This is a good project that will provide a desperately needed service and save the State and the Federal Government and the Municipality tax dollars. The only negative would be that having this new facility would allow more efficient and likely more effective care of people on Medicare and Medicaid so those with health conditions who need treatment might live longer and therefore might cost more.