The President’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget for health care should benefit many homeless people as it provides funding for the expansion of Medicaid, proposes additional funding for federally qualified health centers, and increases funding for mental health and substance abuse treatment. Continue reading The HHS FY2017 Budget Proposals Should Provide Health Care for Hundreds of Thousands of Homeless People →

In 2014, an estimated 1.49 million people used a shelter program at some point during the year and on a given night 30 percent of homeless people were without shelter.  During the same year, 1.15 million homeless people were seen at Federally Qualified Health Centers (Health Centers) for medical care, dental care, and other health care, including 813,331 at Health Care for the Homeless Program Grantee (HCH) Health Centers.
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