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Excerpt from District of Columbia Appropriations for 1994, Vol. 3: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; Pages 2423-3496 Community Health Care, Inc. Is in need of additional funding in the amount of over the next three years. These funds will allow us to operate both of our facilities, East of the River and Upper Cardozo Health Centers, to meet the needs of the uninsured while Congress debates the numerous proposals to reform the United States health insurance system, The entire amount of funding would be for patient services, and program expansion. As the crisis of the uninsured has escalated during the past four years our centers have been forced to serve, due to increased demand, an additional to users each year. This increase in demand has caused serious financial hardship to our corporation to the point that our Governing Board is considering closing one of our sites to remain solvent. This is a decision each one of our Board Members is reluctant to make, considering that they were forced to close our third site, Shaw Community Health Center, in early 1992 due to a mounting deficit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.